Allied Bakeries & Speedibake
OUR INCLUSIVE BUSINESS
Allied Bakeries and Speedibake sit within ABF’s Grocery Group and form part of ABF Grain Products
Limited. This is the second year of reporting the results as one entity.
Work continues across both businesses to create environments where our people can bring their
whole self to work and achieve without barriers, and through understanding our employee voice we
can create those moments to support this aim.
Over the last year:
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Our I&D Group continues to strengthen with multiple activities across a wide range of topics
including Black History Month, Ramadan, International Women’s Day and Pride to celebrate
and raise awareness.
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We have sought to understand our employee voice through an employee wide survey which gave us
great insight and pleasingly demonstrated an overall engagement score of 69%.
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The survey told us that balancing work and family commitments is important and we have implemented
improvements in both maternity and adoption leave provision alongside the introduction of a fertility
support policy.
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Our work with Mental Health First Aiders at sites continues through expansion of numbers, training
and opportunity.
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We have commenced roll out of Unconscious Bias training for managers and discussion workshops for employees to start the conversation around this topic; this will continue to run into the coming year.
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Key speaker events have been run to raise awareness of challenges experienced within minority groups.
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Alongside the delivery of Menopause Advocate sessions, as part of International Women’s Day we offered online menopause awareness training for all employees and their family members.
We look forward to continuing our journey, using data from the survey to continue to build our approach to Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging.
WHAT IS THE GENDER PAY GAP?
The gender pay gap is the difference between the average hourly pay of men and women. Various
factors influence the gap such as the types of role women undertake and the demographics of the
people
in the company. This gender pay gap is different from equal pay, equal pay is where men and
women
are not paid different rates of pay for performing the same or similar role.
Definitions:
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The mean pay gap is the difference between average hourly earnings of men and women
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The median pay gap is the difference between the midpoints in the ranges of hourly
earnings of men and women. It takes each person’s pay and lines them up in order from
lowest to highest and compares the pay at the midpoint.
Data
Our population is made up as follows
|
Allied Bakeries |
Speedibake |
Total |
% |
| Men |
1,991 |
279 |
2,270 |
83.2% |
| Women |
381 |
77 |
458 |
16.8% |
| Total |
2,372 |
356 |
2,728 |
|
Over the last year Speedibake have increased their number of employees across both male and female, offset by reductions in Bakeries, therefore overall for the group our headcount has decreased.
Pay
Mean - The mean gender pay gap is the difference between the average hourly earnings
of men and women
Median - The median pay gap is the difference between midpoints in the range of
hourly pay for men and women, it takes each person’s pay, lines them up from lowest to
highest, then compares the pay at the midpoint.
Mean Gender Pay Gap is -9.3% - the mean figure is biased
towards women; this is reflective
of the fact that our front line
roles which are generally lower
paid are predominantly carried
out by men.
Median Gender Pay Gap is 2.7% - at the midpoint, women’s pay is
2.7% lower than that of men at
the midpoint.
Bonus Pay Gap
Mean Bonus Pay-23.6%
Median Bonus Pay-274.8%
% Employees Receiving a BonusMale11.1% Female 18.1%
Overall a higher percentage of women received a bonus than men; our bonus number is
made up of loyal service awards and recruitment bonuses as well as a company incentive
plan. There is a higher number of men in the business who have received the loyal service
or recruitment bonus which is of a lower value than the incentive plan and drives the
median bonus pay gap which is not reflective of the ’real gap’. Removing these gives a
mean bonus pay gap of 8%.
Pay Quartiles
% of Employees in each pay quartile
|
Male |
Female |
|
| Upper Quartile |
79.3% |
20.7% |
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| Upper Middle Quartile |
89.9% |
10.1% |
|
| Lower Middle Quartile |
84.0% |
16.0% |
|
| Lower Quartile |
79.6% |
20.4% |
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