Annual_report_2006

REPORT BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS A N N U A L R E P O R T 20 21 to 30 years 31 to 40 years 41 to 50 years More than 50 years Within 20 years 2% 17% 26% 31% 24% Secondary professional Secondary accomplished University Primary education 6% 38% 48% 8% The employment rate in the Company depends on the scope of construction con- tracts and production needs for the respec- tive period. Each year, the efficiency of individual working positions is assessed in relation to the management structure. In 2006, as in years before, the Company streamlined its management structure and all systematized working positions by 2 – 5%. Accordingly, higher production volumes were performed with 4.5% fewer employees compared to the prior year. In 2006, the Company employed on average 3 788 employees (adjusted number), 178 less than the prior year. The average monthly salary in 2006 amounted to SKK 22 700 per employee, an annual increase of 3.6%. The average monthly salary in 2006 within working (blue collar) positions was SKK 19 196 per employee, which represents an annual increase of 5.2%. Value added labour productivity amounted to SKK 705 500 per employee. In 2006, subsidiaries and associated compa- nies in Slovakia employed an additional 809 employees. Subsidiaries abroad, mainly in the Czech Republic, employed 3 334 people in 2006. 100 % 100 % Age structure Educational structure SKK 1 million, summer camps for children SKK 600 thousand, employee accident poli- cy SKK 2.4 million, and sports SKK 1.8 million. As part of the employee social programme, we have established an auxiliary works and activities centre for employees with altered working abilities, where approximately 50 employees have been centralised. Their work significantly improves the quality of working environment in the Company. The Company appreciates that the fulfilment of the strategic vision is impossible without targeted training of its future workforce. Therefore, the Company pays maximum attention to the general and professional education of its future employees – metallur- gists, electricians, and mechanics – in the Private Secondary Apprentice School of Metallurgy in Lopej. After graduating in 2006, 57 graduates were hired at Železiarne Podbrezová a.s. In 2007, 77 new apprentices are expected to begin employment, and we will have the opportunity to employ a further 80 to 100 young people in the future. We are aware of the fact that we are nurturing our future employees and that it is impossible to wait only for those unique ones, and, instead, it is our mission to assist all of them in becoming unique for the Company. On 1 September 2006, based on the decision of the Ministry of Education of the SR we opened the first school year of our Private Secondary Grammar School aimed at sports. In the school year 2008/2009, we plan to enlarge the school by another class focused on informatics. of employees in 2006 of employees in 2006