URALCHEM attaches great importance to professional development and public assistance to the employees of the companies forming URALCHEM structure. There are various scaling public programs developed with regard to the interests and demands of our employees and in cooperation with the trade-unions.

Education and training

URALCHEM complex professional development program covering all categories of workers, engineers and technicians, as well as managers is aimed at improvement of the employees’ professional competence and providing the Company with highly-skilled professionals. Its goal is to create the necessary human resources which will secure the dynamic development of all parts of the company in future.

The program uses the internal resources of the Company to carry out versatility and other kinds of trainings. Particular attention is paid to training young workers and specialists. there is a tutorial system for groups and individuals, there are professional seminars for college and university graduates from which future employees can be chosen.

Partnership programs have been developed in cooperation with colleges and universities which are carrying out the education of highly professional workers in relevant fields.

After participating in training, employees are tested in order to increase the effectiveness of such trainings. Personnel appraisals are regularly carried out in accordance with the guidelines from the reviewing authorities.

Medical insurance

URALCHEM considers financing employees' medical care as a social investment directed at our employees’ health and improvement in quality of life as well as investments which are economically effective.

The medical care programs for employees include voluntary health insurance paid for by the Company’s funds, regular medical examinations at the Companies’ medical stations, ambulatory care, therapeutic manipulations, a sanatorium and spa treatment, and seasonal immunization.

Children and young people

The care of the rising generation is one of the most important parts of our corporate public responsibility policy. Programs for support of children and young people which operate at the companies have several purposes:

• Education: education of our employees’ children at the company’s expense;
• Free time: children spend their summer vacations in camps and sanatoriums in health-resort areas in the South of Russia,  go on excursion trips; we organize various activities for children according to their interests: music, theater and dancing studios; we employ senior high school students and university students for the vacation period, support various sports teams and tourist clubs
• Medical service;
• Encouragement and social support measures: one-time compensations to army conscripts, who returned to the factories, support of organizations for young people, rewards to active young people at the year-end, professional skills contests for young workers, financial aid to large families and handicapped children

Corporate sport

Physical training and sport play an important role in health support, uniting groups of people and supporting the formation of important personal characteristics. This is why URALCHEM supports in various ways different sport programs created by the Company’s factories and rewards the employees’ initiatives in sport.

The Company's corporate sport is interesting and diverse. URALCHEM regularly holds sports festivals, games, track and field events and ski tournaments, organize competitions between departments, the winners of which are sent to regional and all-Russian competitions. The factories’ workers have an opportunity to go to swimming pools, gyms and sport classes.

We often arrange sport and hobby activities in connection with holidays: New Year, Chemist’s Day, Athlete’s Day, the Company’s employees, especially young people, enjoy winter and summer walking tours, meetings, and rafting.

Recreation and leisure

It is in URALCHEM's interest that its employees not only achieve success in work but also have dood quality, adequate rest. This is why the Company develops leisure programs that cover our employees, their family members, and the company’s veterans.

The workers of the enterprises have a chance to spend their time at the company’s recreation centers, take part in activities arranged by the enterprises and devoted to some holidays, take part in competitions between amateur talent groups, corporate contests, cultural and entertainment activities.

Accommodation

In order to help the workers who need to improve their housing conditions, there is an accommodation provision program that includes financing of new house construction and sale of apartments to enterprise workers at lower prices, sale of accommodation units in the secondary market, providing hostel rooms to those who need it. Besides, when it is necessary for employees to receive a loan, the company can stand surety for them.

Charity

Charity programs financed from the enterprises’ funds are aimed first of all at supporting the veterans and the retired employees as well as the most vulnerable groups of citizens in the regions where the enterprises are present: orphan asylums, kindergartens and clubs, schools, handicapped children, war and labor veterans.

Financial aid is rendered directly as well as through charity funds. Public support is not confined to assigning financial aid; the enterprises’ veterans board arranges visits to sick people, gardeners receive free fertilizers, the veterans’ apartments are repaired at the company’s expense and etc.

Financial support for employees

In their work, the production enterprises of URALCHEM use union agreements which are very important to set modern union cooperation between employer and employee. Collective agreements provide for regulations regarding working conditions, social benefits and financial support measures: one-time financial support payments, compensations, and additional vacation days.

One-time financial aid is also granted to young specialists if they are employed right after graduation from universities and colleges, to those who have been demobilized from the Armed Forces and are joining the company, to those who are retired, who go on vacation; financial aid is also granted to pay for expensive medical treatment and operations, in connection with death of close relatives and in some other cases.

Besides, the terms of union agreements provide for 50% repayment of the cost of some medical services on the doctor’s referral, pregnant women go through medical examinations for free.

Compensation is paid to the employees, who have received an illness through their work or an industrial injury; in case of an employee’s death the compensation is paid to close relatives.

Additional vacation days are granted to pregnant women, first graders’ parents, on the occasion of marriage, and in case of a close relatives’ death.