Our employees

Trade unions
There are Trade Unions in our company and their goal is to defend interests of all employees and assist to effective dialogue between the company’s top management and its employees regarding either equal opportunities or working conditions. Owing to successful negotiations between the top management and trade unions’ representatives, the Collective Agreement contains, inter alia, above standard benefits for employees, such as 3 sick days, additional 5 days of holiday leave and provision of benefits to women on maternity leave. Moreover, the trade unions take care of retired employees either by sending them the company O.pen magazine or by inviting them to Trade Unions social events.

European Forum of O2 Employees
The European Employee’s Council (EEC) is a body consisting of delegates representing employees of all daughters of Telefónica O2 Europe Group. The European Forum then serves as a platform for regular sessions of the council members with the Group top management. In accordance with the legislation of the European Union, both bodies comply with the obligation of global corporation to communicate with employees – inform them and consult group intentions and activities with them and support a dialogue with employees and exchange of opinions on a global basis. EEC and European Forum meetings are held twice a year. The Forum discusses current information on Group activities and results, on strategic intents and activities and on Human Resources strategy.

Adaptation of newcomers and training
We know that joining a new company is an important step and a big change in life for everybody. Therefore, we prepared entry training for all new employees, which will provide new employees with information about the Czech telecommunications market, company structure, our internal processes and corporate culture.
Trained and motivated employees are inevitable for our success and help our company to achieve defined targets. Our offer of training courses includes specialised courses, e-learning, language courses, obligatory Health & Safety at Work training courses, environment protection training courses and Management Development Programme.

Reflect O2
Employees’ satisfaction and commitment is reflected in Reflect O2, the internal survey, that brings the feed back from employees and to the results of which the management pays a close attention. To avoid the issues we struggle with we prepare and, in particular, implement the corresponding action plans.

O2 Life
O2 Life was launched in 2006 as a programme of activities created for all employees to help them understand O2 corporate values and provide them with an opportunity to make up a company where and for which they want to work. Employees – Pilots now work in groups focused on concrete corporate aspects, and under the Stream Leaders management they cooperate to develop the respective areas.

Spirit of O2
We appreciate the best employees’ performances, contributions to corporate culture and feats enhancing customer satisfaction by awarding the Annual Spirit O2 Prizes. The nominations are given by employees themselves in several categories. Winners gain a financial reward.

Ducats
The Ducats programme awards “less, partial” successes and addresses all employees. Each employee may give a ducat to their colleagues if they are satisfied or pleased with a result, output, behaviour or cooperation with the particular colleague. These ducats appear in the Telephone Directory. We believe that this is going to be another step to a friendlier atmosphere in our company.

Motivation of Employees – benefits
Our company focuses on the enhancement of employees’ performance, motivation and retention by opportunities of personal and professional development through motivation instruments. i.e. benefits. Our system provides employees with selective benefits, which they can change for various offers of their own choice – supplementary pension insurance, life insurance, contribution to travel costs, preschool amenities, spare time activities or discounts to telecommunications products and services. Our company employs 155 handicapped people who are additionally provided with a holiday voucher in the amount of CZK 10,000 per year.
When it comes to the additions to our employee benefits, one of our priorities is to ensure special conditions for our contractual partner’s services. Employees can thus obtain special health care or spa stays.

Security HELP *15 service
The Security HELP service is meant to help our employees in difficult situations of an emergency nature regardless of whether the problem is private or professional. Employees can call a special free line *15 where they can get 24/7 advice from an operator or be provided with a contact to a Security specialist. Moreover, there is a special Security HELP intranet application available to employees that assists them and provides advice in difficult and most frequent incidents. For consultations or security advice our employees can contact the respective specialists.

Health care
A healthy company stands on healthy employees and that is why we try to take care of our employees’ health. As risk prevention we provide our employees with a company preventive health care, health care packages and special health care days with a special programme. The example of a health protection event is the Life without tobacco campaign, which took place in October 2007 in regions and was aimed to measure the content of carbon oxide in employees’ lungs and educate them about smoking risks. Employees in České Budějovice, Kolín, Ústí nad Labem and Ostrava just exhaled in a special testing device and got information on the level of carbon oxide (CO) in their lungs. In addition to the carbon oxide values they were given leaflets containing information regarding the impact of carbon oxide on a human body, the effects of smoking (even passive), how the body reacts if we stop smoking and particularly how to stop smoking.

Health and Safety Policy
Health Promotion Policy

Awards
Our company participated in the AXA Employer of the year 2007 contest and we ranked first in the public category of the “Most Desired Employer of the Year”. AXA Employer of the year awards the best employers in the Czech Republic. This award is unique as to the scope, which guarantees its reputation and value not only in the eyes of professionals but also in the eyes of the ordinary public.