Governance and Responsibility

Employees

Human capital investment is a key strategy for the group to ensure it attracts and retains competent staff to achieve business plan objectives.

The industrial relations structures of all group companies are well developed to promote effective employee relations and identify and resolve areas of potential conflict.

Initiatives implemented throughout the group are:

  • Specific training and development programmes
  • Effective employee relations
  • Professional recruitment and selection processes
  • Internal promotions
  • Market-related remuneration
  • Open communication channels
  • Building strong relationships with employee representative bodies
  • Employee assistance programmes.
  • All our companies prohibit child-, forced- or compulsory labour. All employees join the companies on a voluntary basis, and enter into open-ended, fixed-duration or temporary contracts in accordance with applicable legislation.
Employee participation

The group has its operating decisions made at the appropriate levels of its diverse business. Participative management lies at the heart of this strategy, which relies on the building of employee partnerships at every level to foster mutual trust and to encourage people to always think about how they can improve themselves and their operations. The group strives to liberate the initiative and energies of its people, because they are the ones who make the difference to the performance of the group.

Employee well-being

Employee well-being is an integral part of the KAP business philosophy. The approach extends beyond compliance with applicable labour legislation and focuses on the creation of a stimulating and meaningful work environment. This approach is applied across all our facilities and encompasses facilities such as employee mentoring, on-the-job training, learnerships and bursary schemes.

Divisional highlights:

  • Mossop offers training for employees at the Liri Tanning School of Technology, on-the-job training, bursaries and student loans as well as HIV/AIDS awareness education.
  • Feltex offers on-site medical facilities, HIV/AIDS awareness training, safe work practices training, bursaries, student loans and apprenticeships.
  • Bull Brand offers SETA-funded learnerships to employees, and has completed a full basic adult education cycle with both employed and unemployed learners. They also offer mentorships to selected previously disadvantaged individuals.
  • Glodina has made significant investments in its people and has committed to further training and development, on-the-job learnership programmes and mentoring and up-skilling unemployed individuals in nearby townships to serve as potential supplements to the workforce. Clinics have been established offering AIDS awareness, education and testing programmes.
  • Jordan invests in its people by way of bursaries, further training and development, on-the-job learnership programmes and mentoring and training of unemployed individuals in neighbouring communities.