Rotana Corporate Sustainability Report 2017

Rotana Corporate Sustainability Report 2017 48 LONG SERVICE AWARDS We reward the loyalty of our colleagues by providing long service awards to honour their many years of service to the company and as well as encourage their ongoing loyalty towards Rotana for completing 5, 10, 15 or 20 years as well as boost morale. INTERNAL MOBILITY Personal development plans and practical actions are key to help realise each colleague’s potential. Rotana is building greater visibility around the different career paths available to our colleagues across our global network of hotels. The inter company transfer (ICT) policy makes the internal mobility afforded to our colleagues available for external transfers as well. We seek to reward our colleagues and give them a sense of ownership, and therefore we encourage inter-company transfers at all levels. Rotana abides by local minimum notice requirements for informing colleagues when there are significant changes in our operations and at minimum 3 months of effective change date. We honestly engage with our colleagues to explore and agree on alternative employment options, when a property is reflagged such as arranging for inter-company transfers or facilitating transfers to hotels in other countries. We also offer severance packages by implementing the hardship allowance policy in specific high-risk countries like Sudan. The Rotana Code of Conduct and Ethics embraces our colleagues’ right to exercise freedom of association and to have representation of their own choice. As of 2016, most of our workforce was not covered by specific collective bargaining agreements. However, according to more recent information supplied by each hotel, in 2016 and 2017 approximately 7.5% of permanent colleagues in Egypt, Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo have subsequently participated in some form of collective bargaining agreement between workers and hotel management. In 2016 and 2017, 1,465 colleagues took the opportunity to transfer to a sister hotel or moved to other countries for openings, new job functions or increased job scope. Our Chairman and Vice Chairman presenting a 20 year Long Service Award to Saban Raiz (former General Manager of Majestic Arjaan by Rotana, Bahrain) at the General Manager Annual Conference in 2016. WHY ROTANA “If you are looking for real success then you are in the right place at Rotana where you can create your new biography. Choose a job you love, choose Rotana.” Sajid Sharif Yaseen Al Qawasmeh (Jordanian) Human Resources Manager Nour Arjaan by Rotana WHY ROTANA “I can’t imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I love most. And Rotana pays me for it.” Lea Sulit (Filipino) Guest relation agent Beach Rotana