Leadership and Culture

A fair wage

We have been an accredited Living Wage employer in the UK since 2014 through the Living Wage Foundation. Now, with the maturity and availability of Living Wage reference values for all the countries in which we have a presence, we have been able to conduct an in-depth assessment to understand our overall position regarding the Living Wage and our global employee workforce – in managed operations, excluding contractors, apprentices and interns.

With that in mind, we have established the following commitments:

We are committed to ensuring that every employee at Anglo American earns a fair wage, and we are confident that this principle is applied to all of our employees in each of our locations.
We are committed to formalising our approach to fair pay by:
- partnering with an independent third party (the Fair Wage Network) with an aim to become an accredited Living Wage employer globally in 2022 (we are already accredited by the Living Wage Foundation in the UK).
- incorporating a Living Wage analysis into our annual pay review processes to ensure we adhere to fluctuating Living Wage benchmarks.
We are committed to exploring ways of applying Living Wage principles to our contractors and supplier base in the future.
We are committed to advocating Living Wage principles to organisations or individuals beyond our control, but within reach of our influence.

Anglo American has been in partnership with the Fair Wage Network (FWN) since March 2021. The FWN is a reputable organisation that has developed an online database that covers Living Wage reference values for every country in the world and is considered experts in this field. We are in the process of exploring the accreditation process with the FWN with a view to formalising our status as a committed Living Wage employer.

Employee Engagement

2019	2021	2022
85%	91%	90%

2019

2021

2022

85%

91%

90%

Our latest global employee engagement survey was carried out in September 2022. Almost 30,000 employees answered questions across the dimensions of culture and values, safety, Purpose, leadership, inclusion and diversity. 89% of employees who responded to this survey say they are proud to work for Anglo American.

Over the past four years, we have consistently tracked colleague sentiment through quarterly and annual engagement surveys. The surveys are enabling us to build a picture of how extensively our Values are lived. Measured against the global average, our overall figures are very high. The data-driven findings are given high priority by senior management and are discussed at Board level; after each survey, action plans are put in place, at both the Group and business unit level, to address areas of our cultural development identified as needing more attention – such as psychological safety.

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