CSR 2024 UK v3 020524 web - Flipbook - Side 36
Part of the local community
Social
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EMPLOYEES & SOCIETY
A natural extension of Frode Laursen’s employee
focus is our commitment to the local communities in
which we operate as well as to society at large.
In many cases, our logistics centres are one of the
largest workplaces in the local area, and consequently
we must contribute to the local community. We work
closely with local authorities and politicians, and at
most of our locations we have people undergoing
job aptitude testing, or we are actively working in
other ways to open the door to people on the edge
of the job market.
One example is our long-term collaboration
with Samhall AB, which is owned by the Swedish
state and helps people on the edge of the Swedish
labour market to find work again. In 2023, we had 165
Samhall employees at our logistics centres in Sweden.
In Denmark, we collaborate closely with the local
authorities and job centres, and we always have local
citizens in job training at our logistics centres, while
in Germany we cooperate with the employment
agencies Münwirker and Holländerhof, which provide
work for people with disabilities. In the whole of
Frode Laursen, we had a total of 212 citizens in various
forms of job training in 2023.
We mean it when we say everyone who wants to
work is entitled to a job, and we go out of our way
to accommodate people who find it difficult to get
a foothold elsewhere. We are therefore very open
to alternative ways of being trained and educated,
and every year we have taken on young people who,
through our New Apprenticeship programme, gain
a more practical approach to training as a warehouse
operator or HGV driver.
