Gender pay reporting 2020
Our 2020 report will be made available by
April 2021, as the government has extended
the deadline for production.
Ethnicity pay reporting
This year we started talking about ethnicity
pay reporting. We currently can't report on
this because we stopped recording employee
ethnicity a few years back, when new GDPR
regulations caused us to examine what
personal and sensitive information we were
storing, and we concluded at that point that
we had no business reason to do so. We aim
to revisit this decision in 2021, as part of a
wider conversation about inclusion and
diversity, although we still can't compel
employees to give us this data if they prefer
not to, and we need adequate data for the
results to be trustworthy and truly
representative.
Continued support for employee mental
health
As part of our health and wellbeing focus,
we're continuing to work on helping
employees understand what we can all to do
help our own mental health, even when
external circumstances are challenging and
beyond our control.
We're experimenting with integrating aspects
of health and wellbeing into our main annual
employee voice survey, so that our approach
to managing this crucial area is seen as an
integral part of being a good manager, not a
standalone approach.
Click here to find out how we have helped
our employees with mental health
Delivering learning in a new, sustainable
way
Many of us learned a new skill in lockdown,
or had to learn to do certain tasks ourselves,
due to being unable to let tradesmen into
our houses. Most of us went straight to
online video sites to look for guidance on
how to do something, so this made us reflect
on how we deliver and access learning in
our business. We have previously been
heavily reliant on face-to-face sessions
which involve a lot of travel and we've
realised many modules are ideal candidates
to be delivered interactively using online
tools. We're starting the process of redesign
and look forward to seeing our employees
engage with these sessions whilst our
associated carbon footprint significantly
reduces.
Ethical pension investments
Click here to find out
more about ethical
pension investment
Responsible tax strategy
"One of the most essential and effective
contributions that businesses can make to
the SDGs is to ensure that responsible
business conduct and respect for human
rights are at the heart of their operations."[1]
At Bidfood, we have a tax strategy that
ensures we pay on time the right and proper
tax on all our UK revenue. This proper and
timely payment helps the government fund
essential services, which in turn, enable
human rights such as education and health.
The Bidcorp Group Finance team supported
by the Bidcorp Group Audit and Risk
Committee provide an oversight role to
ensure that all Bidcorp Group operations
adhere to the Bidcorp Taxation Policy.
Our customers, employees and investors can
all have peace of mind that they are
supporting a company which supports the
ethical payment of tax.