The Borealis
Local Employment
solution
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Local
Employment
module
The LOCAL EMPLOYMENT module proposes to implement a transparent local hiring process to increase surrounding communities’ involvement in the project and to create fair job opportunities. It allows the company as well as subcontractors to monitor and manage these issues and allow managers to have a much closer follow-up of the following activities: training, preliminary scoping, assessment, management hiring quotas for the communities, assets restoration.
- Transparent pre-qualification process that provides local vendors the opportunity to bid forcontract work.
- Encourages local hiring and the established of a systematic process for demobilization as well as community quotas.
What is local employment?
Local employment represents a direct benefit of a mining or oil and gas operation and is often one of the biggestexpectations of local communities.Companies exploiting projects in different parts of the world commit themselves to hire locally and provide positive benefits to communities by enhancing skills and providing income.
Why is it important to address those issues?
For the communities:
The jobs and business opportunities created by the companies developing projects represent a significant opportunity for local people to benefit from a company's presence and gain access to cash. It also contributes to the local economy development by enhancing skills and providing income.
For the project's developers:
Local people have a good understanding of the regulatory framework, customs and culture and can provide a significant expertise to a company operating in a host country. Local employment is also a way for companies to contribute to local economy and strengthen community relations. To do so, they have to set up clear hiring and procurement policies and be aware that conflicts may arise with the communities due to different point of views about employment opportunities. However inappropriate or inadequate management of local employment can lead to poor acceptance of the project, increased tensions between communities and company, and ultimately loss of the company's social license.
The three components of Borealis Local Employment solution:
Recruitment
- Identify Job seekers and job offers opportunities and streamline the selection process
- Enforce validation rules for Local contracting and Procurement – regarding selection criteria of local staff
- Establish a transparent screening process
- Provide pre-qualification management, training sessions, follow-up and performance evaluation tosupport local capacity building
Labor Pool Monitoring
- Direct Local employment (community) or Indirect by contractor employment
- Contractor access to labor pool
- Work experience/contracts tracking
- Respect of community quotas
- Training Register
- Local/national/international staffing reports
Demobilization
- Planning and optimization
- Severance packages
- Payrolls validation
- Respect national and international rules
This module can also be connected to the company's existing human resources management system.
