We strive to make a positive social impact on our people, supply chain, and communities. By providing high-quality employment, we contribute significantly to economic stability. We engage proactively and fairly with all stakeholders to understand and address their needs. Additionally, we support charitable causes aligning with our sustainability goals and employees’ interests, extending our positive impact.

We are committed to being a fair employer, promoting equal opportunity and fostering an inclusive workplace. Recognising that diversity enhances business success, we actively work to advance underrepresented groups and tackle social inequality through targeted outreach programmes. By nurturing talent from diverse backgrounds, we create a culture where everyone can thrive and contribute to our success. 

Our commitments

We are working to support UN Sustainable Development Goals 5: Gender equality and 8: Decent work and economic growth as part of this pillar of our new sustainability framework. We have set the following strategic commitments to help drive progress:

• We develop and deliver initiatives to drive greater representation from diverse groups, including gender and ethnic diversity
• We contribute to a fairer society more broadly, including by ensuring 100% of employees are covered by our Fair Pay Framework

Our progress

Employee feedback is critical in ensuring our employees’ views are considered in decisions made at the Board and management levels. In 2024, 80% of employees participated in the engagement survey and the ‘Rotork as a place to work’ measure maintained a strong score of 7.1/10.

All colleagues should be appropriately and fairly rewarded for their contributions. In 2020, we launched our Fair Pay Framework, which includes five focus areas to guide our reward policies, procedures, systems, and decision making and support fair and competitive remuneration. Our original Framework included a commitment to pay a real living wage (rather than the minimum wage) where this exists in a country. In 2021, we increased our commitment and now ensure we pay more than the living wage published in a country. Rotork is accredited as a Living Wage Employer by the Living Wage Foundation. 

Rotork strives to contribute positively to the communities in which we operate worldwide. This is integral to our commitment to being a good corporate citizen. We target an annual contribution of 0.1% of profits to our nominated charity partners (Pump Aid and Renewable World) and a similar percentage to local charitable causes. Local teams are empowered to decide how to distribute funds and support their local communities.