The objective of TVO is to have an equal, healthy working environment that tolerates no discrimination and promotes the implementation of equality.
TVO’s Code of Conduct and company-level policies determine the HR policy principles. A prerequisite for TVO’s operations is that its entire personnel remains motivated, take responsible care of their duties and commit to compliance with the agreed procedures.
TVO provides its personnel with varied duties and an opportunity for professional and career development. TVO provides competitive rewards and encourages employees to work profitably, to meet their goals and to operate at a high level every day.
In 2018, TVO continued its activities to develop work community culture and promote safety culture. TVO carries out a personnel survey every 18 months or so. Results of the 2018 survey showed clear improvement in all sectors. TVO’s total score (A) was higher than the target level (B). The survey was carried out by Corporate Spirit Ltd.
More than 130 new employees joined the Olkiluoto team
In 2018, TVO continued with its preparations for the commissioning of Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) by recruiting new talent. The recruitment campaign was clearly visible in different communication channels over the course of the year. A total of 134 new employees were hired during the year.
At the end of 2018, TVO employed 877 people. The average number of employees during the year was 870. Most of TVO’s employees work at Olkiluoto, with some 20 people working in Helsinki. The average age of TVO’s employees was 42.7 years in 2018.
At the end of 2018, 21.2% (22.2% in 2017) of the permanent employees were female. The Board of Directors had ten members, one of them female. The Management Team had thirteen members, four of them female. The Management Team includes three personnel representatives. A total of 55 permanent employees left the company. Nine employees left due to retirement and twelve employees from financial administration and payroll accounting became employees of Administer Oy due to a business transfer on 1 November 2018.
In 2018, TVO employed 105 (2017: 92) summer trainees. As in the previous year, TVO participated in the Responsible Summer Job campaign of the Children and Youth Foundation. The campaign aims to develop summer jobs and the readiness of youth between the ages of 16 and 25 to transfer to working life. For TVO, the participation meant applying the campaign’s principles to the summer jobs of interns. TVO also continued its cooperation with educational institutions in the adjacent area and participated in recruitment events arranged by institutes of higher education in different parts of Finland.
Over the course of the year, 9% of TVO’s permanent employees (2017: 12%) took parental leave. The competence and expertise of TVO’s employees is based on systematic development of professional competence and long employment relationships.
On 31 May 2018, Anna Lehtiranta, Senior Vice President, Stakeholder Relations and Risto Siilos, Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and Procurement, resigned from the TVO Management Team. On 1 November 2018, TVO’s Board of Directors named Ulla-Maija Moisio as the Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and a new member of the Management Team.
TVO complies with the applicable collective labor agreements for the energy sector in all its operations. The current agreements are valid until 31 January 2020. All of the employees fall under the scope of the collective agreements. TVO has freedom of association. The energy sector’s agreed salary systems for technical and industrial officials and employees are based on the job requirement categories and support the implementation of an equal salary policy. As a rule, the various employment benefits apply to the entire personnel, excluding very short employment relationships.
Large projects provide employment for thousands of people in Olkiluoto
OL3 EPR is a large international project and the plant supplier’s average workforce at the Olkiluoto 3 construction site was 1,895 in 2018. A high level of safety culture is required from all parties working at the construction site. The occupational health and safety of the employees working at the site remained at a good level.
Annual outages of the OL1 and OL2 plant units give work to dozens of subcontractors from Finland and abroad every year. In 2018, a total of 1,405 people participated in the work during the annual outages.
