The world’s seventh-largest gold miner by production, Gold Fields, says it is committed to eliminating inappropriate and harmful behaviour in the workplace after an independent review confirmed that many employees and contractors have experienced bullying, sexual harassment and racism. The company in 2022 hired specialist consultancy Elizabeth Broderick & Co (EB&Co) to undertake an independent review of its workplace culture.
The world’s seventh-largest gold miner by production, Gold Fields, says it is committed to eliminating inappropriate and harmful behaviour in the workplace after an independent review confirmed that many employees and contractors have experienced bullying, sexual harassment and racism.
“Bullying, sexual harassment, racism and any forms of inequality and exclusion have no place at Gold Fields. I want to apologise to the people in our business who have been exposed to these behaviours. Eighty-four per cent of the employees who participated in the review agreed that people behaved in a respectful way towards others at Gold Fields, while 78% said they did not experience any inappropriate behaviour from a colleague or anyone on site while working at Gold Fields.
“Employees shared that the corporate office in Johannesburg had a culture characterised by ‘fear’, ‘favouritism’ and ‘bullying and belittling behaviour’ by some leaders, including executives. Instances of bullying were found to be worse at the corporate office, at South Deep and at Gold Fields’ operations in Ghana, while employees in the Americas region were less likely to have experienced bullying in the past five years.Only 51% of Ghanaian employees agreed that requests for sexual favours in the workplace were rare, compared with the average of 74% of Gold Fields’ employees overall.
In terms of racism, 77% of Gold Fields employees agreed that racist jokes and comments were rare in the workplace, although only 63% of employees in Ghana agreed.
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