The Enterprise and its Employees
Working environmentThe personnel policy of VKG is based on the valid legislation of the Estonian republic and proceeds from requirements and regulations of an industrial enterprise.
The specifc character of VKG personnel policy consists in the following:
- Oil shale industry is a specifc industrial branch requiring high-qualifed manpower with specialized professional education. VKG keeps its high-qualifed personnel employed with an advantageous system of salaries, working environment and the culture of the enterprise. There is a collective labour contract made between the employer and the employees. The enterprise guarantees herewith many extra advantages to its employees, such as higher salary rates for night work, additional holiday payment for service length, bonuses for jubilee birthdays, allowances for family occasions, etc
- The generation of engineers educated in the former Soviet Union is leaving the labour market little by little as they are getting old. The objective of the personnel politics of VKG is promoting a new generation of employees and arrival of young people into industry. To ensure an infux of young specialists VKG has founded at the Technical University of Tallinn 6 annual scholarships named after VKG itself, whereas two of them are intended for students of bachelor-level program, and four – for students of applied science. Since the academic year 2005/2006 VKG has started its cooperation with the Virumaa College of Tallinn Technical University (this college is located in Kohtla-Järve). The both programmes are being continued in the year 2010. also, VKG enables trainee students doing many paid practical works.
- As it is referred to a dangerous industrial production, the duties of the personnel department are closely related to labour safety. Since 2006 the OHSAS systems (Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems) have been applied at all VKG subsidiaries to guarantee occupational safety of an employee at the workplace.
- As the work at the enterprise requires high-level professional training, the human resources policy is one of the priorities for keeping employed the people working at the concern and providing them with opportunities of self-development inside the concern.
- Oil shale industry is with its deeply rooted traditions the industrial branch which the personnel department has to consider in its daily activities. The personnel department at VKG stands for maintenance of working traditions and takes part in preparation of annual traditional events, frst of all in holding the Chemical Worker`s Day.
