Our lost time injury frequency (LTIF)
for employees fell from 4.09 in 2008 to 3.09 at the end of 2010. We have developed nine Diversity workstreams headed up by senior leaders from across the business. These will develop actions and deliver improvements to the working environment and behaviours our employees’ experience.
We run quarterly PRIDE surveys that ask our employees a range of questions about working at E.ON. This gives us a regular update on how we’re regarded as an employer.
At least 2,500 colleagues dial in to a quarterly live question and answer session with our Chief Executive and his Board colleagues.
Despite our best efforts, the recession in 2010 saw the loss of around 600 jobs in our UK business, mainly due to restructuring in our retail and energy services businesses. Employees affected were consulted at every stage and those who did leave received severance packages as well as support in finding new jobs.
| Value our people
| 2010
| 2009
| 2008
|
| Lost time injury frequency (LTIF) (no. of lost time injuries/number of working hours in 12 month period x 1,000,000)- employees
| 3.09
| 3.24[9]
| 4.09
|
| Total recordable injury frequency (Total number of injuries/working hours in 12 month period x 1,000,000) - employees
| 6.35
| 4.21
| 5.40
|
| Headcount[10] (number)
| 16,637
| 17,599
| 17,480
|
| Employee turnover (%)
| 15.6
| 12.9
| 17.0
|
| Female employees as a proportion of whole employee base (%)
| 32
| 34
| 35
|
| Ethnic minority employees as a proportion of whole employee base (%)
| 9.2[11]
| 8.8
| 9.0
|
| Attendance (%)
| 96.7
| 96.4
| 96.5
|
[9]This figure has been restated to include all E.ON in the UK operations to allow comparability. The LTIF of 3.28 which was published and assured by PwC last year only included E.ON UK PLC.
[10]Headcount as at year end
[11]The total number of employees includes 12% for whom E.ON do not know their ethnicity and have not been counted as ethnic minorities. In 2010, E.ON has taken active measures to contact all employees with unknown ethnic background- significantly reducing the percentage of unknown. We have not received a response from 12% of those the employees, who are under no legal requirement to provide the information. Over the forthcoming year, E.ON will make further efforts to refine this data. E.ON is confident in the accuracy of the figure provided that has been derived from the underlying data system. However some source documentation was not available for external assurance testing due to the duration of time covered by the samples and some documentation having been destroyed to comply with data protection laws.
