GRI - Labour practices & decent work indicators

LA1

Workforce by employment type, contract and region.

Employees

Business units collect information on employment type and contracts.  This information is not reported at the Group level as we have a variety of data collection systems implemented by individual business units across the Group. This means that data aggregation is not currently possible. We are currently improving our data collection approach in this area and will be able to report more completely on this indicator within the next two years, with some limitations due to legislation in the environments we work within.

LA2

Employee turnover broken down by age group, gender, and region.

Business units collect information on employee turnover for purposes of recruitment, retention and diversity planning and strategy development. Data collection surrounding age and gender complies with any relevant local legislation.

This information is not reported at the Group level as we have a variety of data collection systems implemented by individual Business Units across the Group. We are currently improving our data collection approach in this area and will be able to report more completely on this indicator within the next two years, with some limitations due to legislation in the environments we work within.

LA4

Employees covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Human rights
Employees
United Nations Global Compact
Rio Tinto's Human Rights guidance is applicable at all sites and covers freedom of association in relation to union membership. 
In Australia 10% of the workforce is covered by a collective instrument.
We do not intend to collect this information Group wide as there are many jurisdictions in which we operate where it is not legal to ask about an employee's membership of unions or other representative organisations.  

LA5

Minimum notice period(s) regarding significant operational changes.

Employees
We provide the minimum notice periods required by local legislation in the regions where we operate. In cases where employees are represented by labour unions, notice periods are provided by local legislation or in collective bargaining agreements.

MM4

Number of strikes and lock-outs exceeding one week's duration, by country

Employees

LA7

Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days and absenteeism, and number of work related fatalities, by region.

Safety
Health

Absenteeism data is collected at local level and accordance with local regulation. We do not report this data at the Group level as legislation varies considerably across the regions where we operate.

LA8

Education, training, counselling, prevention, and risk control programmes in place for assisting workforce members, their families or community members regarding serious diseases.

Health

LA10

Average hours of training per year per employee by employee category.

Employees
Sustainable development reports

We do not report statistics on training hours and expenditure at the Group level as we have a variety of data collection systems implemented by individual business units across the Group. This means that data aggregation is not currently possible. We are currently improving our data collection approach in this area and will be able to report more completely on this indicator within the next five years.

LA13

Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees by indicators of diversity.

Board
Employees
United Nations Global Compact

Rio Tinto employs on the basis of job requirements and does not discriminate on the grounds of age, ethnic or social origin, gender, sexual orientation, politics or religion. 
In many jurisdictions in which we operate it is not legal to ask about an employee's age, minority group or other indicators of diversity. Therefore, it is not intended to collect this information for reporting purposes.

LA14

Ratio of basic salary of men to women by employment category.

Employees
Remuneration report
United Nations Global Compact

Rio Tinto employs on the basis of job requirements and does not discriminate on grounds of age, ethnic or social origin, gender, sexual orientation, politics or religion.

We do not report statistics on the ratio of basic salary of men to women by employment category at the Group level outside of the senior leadership group as we have a variety of data collection systems implemented by individual business units across the Group. This means that data aggregation is not currently possible. We are currently improving our data collection approach in this area and will be able to report more completely on this indicator within the next five years.