Deloitte Top 200: SkyCity wins Diversity and Inclusion Leadership award

Skycity Entertainment Group's Project Nikau initiative has been awarded the 2020 Deloitte Top 200 Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Award.

Project Nikau is a Maori and Pasifika focused initiative to raise awareness and develop careers among young people (aged 15-24).

Māori resource group Te Roopu Māori O Skycity runs in parallel with and supports Project Nikau's efforts.

This is the second year that an entertainment company has received the award. In 2018, Skycity won first place in the Tahuna TE Ahi nominations.

Former general manager Graham Stevens and head of human resources Claire Walker decided to focus on engaging young Maori and Pasifika to achieve the company's character and culture goals.

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The SkyCity team found that 13, 6% of young people aged 15 to 24 were not busy in education, employment or training in 2018, the year the program was conceived. Of these 29, 400 people, 35 percent were Māori and Pacific.

The team's mission was to place 30 young people in fully employed, stable positions, giving them the opportunity to find a way forward where they had previously encountered marginalization and difficulty finding employment. The overall goal was to build a proven model of public and business routes that could be scaled and replicated.

SkyCity is working with more than 30 external organizations, evaluating existing internal support, hiring youth mentors and working with the Ministry of Social Development to find suitable participants.

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The judges of the "Diversity and Inclusion" competition noted that "SkyCity recognizes the importance of partnerships, tests and improves its programs, demonstrating great innovation."

The team worked to ensure that SkyCity's 2, 860-strong leadership and employees understood the need for youth engagement.

A set of tools, ngā kete e toru (three knowledge bases), was used to understand how to better support disadvantaged youth in the workplace.

The first 15 participants were commissioned in June 2019. 15 more followed in September, and 20 more were recruited in February 2020, bringing the total number of participants to 50, exceeding the initial target of 30.

Participants receive individual training and advanced training programs within six months of joining the company. Each participant receives a dedicated assistant, mentor, mentor, and cultural support.

Since its launch in Auckland, the program has been evaluated twice.

External experts point out: It was clear that the team that led the project had carried out the concept of the village in my heart, and the practice of Wanown Gatanga was permeating at all levels of the program. "

The Sky City team is satisfied with the achievements, especially in consideration of the issues that Cavid 19 brings to business.

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D & Amp; amp; I I was impressed by the expandability of the program and the permanent effect on participants, even if the program did not continue.

Sky City's Claire Walker explained: "Cavid had influenced everyone, but it was more serious for some people. Thanks to COVID, everyone has gone down the ladder. The analogy is very appropriate.

"Before Cavid, this group was the most disadvantageous position.

Walker says that in this tough era, there are temptations that contribute to social licensees, the environment, to reduce investment in the environment, and people's initiatives, but social licenses are more important than ever.

In early 2020, 58 % of the 5, 000 Sky City employees were under 36. The oldest employee is 83 years old, speaking 56 languages, 6 % of employees are LGBTQ+, and the team is equally divided into men and women. The top three ethnic groups were Chinese, New Zealand and Indians.

"The business has decreased by 25 % overnight, and the number of employees has decreased by 900," says Walker.

Management has modeled on various approaches, such as the "last one" and "selection of skills and basses," regarding the selection criteria for reducing the number of staffing. < SPAN> External experts point out: It was clear that the team that led the project was carving the concept of the village in my heart, and the practice of Wanngatanga was penetrating at all levels of the program. "

The Sky City team is satisfied with the achievements, especially in consideration of the issues that Cavid 19 brings to business.

Approximately 66 % of the program participants continue to work, 32 % or more, 36 % for more than 12 months, 11 months, and 48 % for six months. This percentage exceeds the employee retention rate by 20 %.

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D & Amp; amp; I I was impressed by the expandability of the program and the permanent effect on participants, even if the program did not continue.

Sky City's Claire Walker explained: "Cavid had influenced everyone, but it was more serious for some people. Thanks to COVID, everyone has gone down the ladder. The analogy is very appropriate.

"Before Cavid, this group was the most disadvantageous position.

Walker says that in this tough era, there are temptations that contribute to social licensees, the environment, to reduce investment in the environment, and people's initiatives, but social licenses are more important than ever.

In early 2020, 58 % of the 5, 000 Sky City employees were under 36. The oldest employee is 83 years old, speaking 56 languages, 6 % of employees are LGBTQ+, and the team is equally divided into men and women. The top three ethnic groups were Chinese, New Zealand and Indians.

"The business has decreased by 25 % overnight, and the number of employees has decreased by 900," says Walker.

Management has modeled on various approaches, such as the "last one" and "selection of skills and basses," regarding the selection criteria for reducing the number of staffing. External experts point out: It was clear that the team that led the project had carried out the concept of the village in my heart, and the practice of Wanown Gatanga was permeating at all levels of the program. "

The Sky City team is satisfied with the achievements, especially in consideration of the issues that Cavid 19 brings to business.

Approximately 66 % of the program participants continue to work, 32 % or more, 36 % for more than 12 months, 11 months, and 48 % for six months. This percentage exceeds the employee retention rate by 20 %.

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D & Amp; amp; I I was impressed by the expandability of the program and the permanent effect on participants, even if the program did not continue.

Sky City's Claire Walker explained: "Cavid had influenced everyone, but it was more serious for some people. Thanks to COVID, everyone has gone down the ladder. The analogy is very appropriate.

"Before Cavid, this group was the most disadvantageous position.

Walker says that in this tough era, there are temptations that contribute to social licensees, the environment, to reduce investment in the environment, and people's initiatives, but social licenses are more important than ever.

In early 2020, 58 % of the 5, 000 Sky City employees were under 36. The oldest employee is 83 years old, speaking 56 languages, 6 % of employees are LGBTQ+, and the team is equally divided into men and women. The top three ethnic groups were Chinese, New Zealand and Indians.

"The business has decreased by 25 % overnight, and the number of employees has decreased by 900," says Walker.

Management has modeled on various approaches, such as the "last one" and "selection of skills and basses," regarding the selection criteria for reducing the number of staffing.

What was really concerned was how the introduction of "the first and first going out" would affect Project Nikau, our youth employment program. For many of them, Project Nikau has become the first employment skill.

"By recommending voluntary separation to other workers who want to retire, we eventually provided an opportunity to reemployment to all young workers in these weak positions."

Finalist Shinle Milk

Finalist Shin Lemilk

Cinlate Milk was selected as a finalist at Deloitte Top 200 D & Amp; amp; I Leadership Award 2020 as a policy leader mātua and tāwariwari.

The mission of Shinlate Milk is to "change milk for a healthier world." For this reason, Shinlate's President Ruth Richardson and Leon Clement (CEO), CEO, wondered how more women could achieve this goal.

Shinlait Milk has more than 1. 000 employees throughout New Zealand. At the beginning of 2019, women accounted for 34 % of senior executives. The wage gap with a male colleague was 16 %. The goal is to make this disparity of 5 % or more by 2023.

According to Shinlait, caregivers who enter childcare leave always obtain information about events, participate in special events, confirm that income does not fall below legal restrictions, see more flexible working hours, and pay for childcare. I want you not need to worry.

This new policy was announced to employees in the employee general.

Shinlait has promised the following:

Increase childcare leave provided by the country to 26 weeks, absolutely paid;

Give your partner a tw o-week paid leave (in addition to annual vacation).

Continue contribution to Kiwi Saver, surely accumulate every year (maintain currency value until you get vacation), and review the salaries of employees on vacation every year.

Furthermore, if the childcare leave is wishing, the company supports maintaining the connection, supports returning to work with the support of flexible work policy (TāwariWari) until the child is 3 years old (municipal subsidy). Until the start of work), if the leading parent returns to work more than 20 hours a week, he will pay a child's childcare fee to $ 154 a week.

Currently, Shinlait has paid 290. 000 US dollars for childcare leave, $ 117. 00 for partner vacations, and $ 65. 00 for childcare for childcare.

Judges in the department were impressed by how the politicians were out of parliamentary demands.

"It is an initiative that far exceeds the legal requirements, such as providing paid vacation for childcare, providing paid leave to partners, deducting kiwi saver and acquiring annual leave."

The advantages of this policy are the establishment of staff, the loyalty of employees, the mutual connection, and the culture of justice and Kotahitanga (unity).

According to the company's HR manager Trish Telfer, "according to research, women's caree r-up often affects taking vacations for chil d-rearing. This is how we are trying to reduce this problem. One is one. "

I am very happy that the Deloit Top 200 Diversity & Inclusion division has remained in the final selection.

Shinlate is trying to provide a comprehensive workplace, and our Marta policy is to reduce the economic burden on the care of children, especially parents, especially mothers, and to reduce the financial burden associated with their children.

"We believed we had something special.

At the time of this policy, the company has achieved 100 % of his return to work, and the number of women in leadership has increased by 38 %. In addition, the wage gap between men and women has been reduced from 16 % to 13 %, highly evaluated by judges.

One of the employees who used this policy, Shi n-Rice Mama, said, "I just thought that giving birth would be a interrupt career, but it was different in Shinlait."