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which nurtures a level of trust. It conforms to best international practice and is based on: total rewards, incentive-based rewards, annual cash incentives, and long-term or share-based incentives.” Standard benefits include a pension fund, medical aid and group life insurance. In addition ARM offers study assistance, bursaries for employees’ children, bursaries for employees and sports activity funding.

It sponsors year-end events, team-building interventions, community sports, and fun day activities and wellness days. And employees also have access to psychological counselling through a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.

CEO Mike Schmidt says, “We are passionate about our sustainable contribution to skills and education in the country. A key focus going forward will be the development of maths and science skills in the schools of the communities in which we operate. We have made it our mission to stage academic and technical skills interventions at all levels of the educational system and we are particularly proud of our programme that allows school leavers to receive accredited skills based training at our respective operations.“The company might not have the capacity to recruit all of these individuals once they have completed their training, but they leave us armed with the necessary skills to gain further employment. It is our belief that projects such as these go a long way in addressing poverty and unemployment.”

Schmidt is confident of ARM’s capability to continue with the upliftment of the communities residing in areas in which the company’s operations are located. “We are highly optimistic about the future, not only of the company, but also of the country, and believe strongly in ARM’s ability to continue creating value for all of our stakeholders.”