People

Our operations impact our employees and the communities where we operate. These impacts can be positive – employment, fostering local businesses, infrastructure – as well as negative – land use, dust, privacy, community dependence on the Company. Our social license to operate is based on upholding human and labor rights, and developing positive relationships with our employees and communities.

We are committed to building and retaining a talented expert team for international and integrated growth. OMV is committed to ensuring fair treatment and equal opportunities for all employees, and has zero tolerance for discrimination and harassment of any kind. We embrace our differences and use our diversity of thought and experience as a catalyst for growth and creativity.

As a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact, OMV is fully committed to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and aims to contribute to the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by pursuing a social investment strategy that addresses local needs and the SDGs. We are aware that the energy transition also brings with it social impacts. OMV is committed to contributing to a Just Transition for our employees and communities, and addressing social and economic effects of the transition to an environmentally sustainable economy.

The People strategic focus area combines our commitments and actions relating to our employees and communities under one umbrella. Our approach begins with ensuring that the human rights of our employees and communities are upheld, efforts that are described in the material topic Human Rights. The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Employees; and Communities material topics then further outline how we ensure those rights, whether economic, social, or cultural, are realized.