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6.1 Employment
A standing goal of MYTILINEOS Group
is to successfully attract competent
professionals and to support their
development, ensuring that their ca-
reers evolve within our Group com-
panies and contribute to our efforts for
economic, social and environmental
progress towards sustainable devel-
opment. We recognise and appreciate
the efforts of our people, whose sci-
entific qualifications; effectiveness
and professional dependability help us
meet our business targets in the con-
stantly changing and difficult economic
conditions of the last years.
On 31.12.2012, MYTILINEOS Group
employed a total of 1,965 people in-
cluding freelance professionals and
subcontractor personnel, slightly
(2.7%) less than 2011 – a development
attributed to the difficult economic
conditions in Greece. Almost 89% of
our people are employed in mining ac-
tivities, aluminium production and
EPC construction projects, while 8%
are employed in the Energy sector, a
share that is expected to increase
during 2013 driven by the entry of
PROTERGIA S.A. in the retail market
for electricity.
In late 2012 the Management of
ALUMINIUM S.A. and the Union of
Company Employees signed a new
agreement, under which the plant’s
jobs and production capacity are
maintained, with substantial cost
rationalizations introduced on a sus-
tainable and long-term basis.
In METKA S.A. the number of per-
sonnel dropped by 15% from the
previous year, mainly due to: (a)
the transfer of salaried personnel
to a Group subsidiary to support
the implementation of the Group’s
business plan. (b) The completion
of company projects in Greece and
abroad.
Total workforce
2010 2011 2012
Total
2,249 2,020 1,965
Men
1,732 1,703
Women
288 262
Contracted personnel
2010 2011 2012
Total
410 397 384
Men
315 315
Women
82
69
A substantial contribution to the
stabilisation of the number of per-
sonnel of MYTILINEOS Group in
2012 came from the reorganisation
of the Energy Management and
Trading Division of PROTERGIA S.A.,
with the inclusion in it of three
thermal plants (Ag. Nikolaos and
Korinthos Energy Centres) and of
the RES plants. Staffing needs for
the thermal plants and for the Re-
tail Division led to the recruitment
of 123 employees, helping to boost
the Group’s total workforce level
for 2012.
