ArcelorMittal Ostrava Helping Long-Term Unemployed People Reenter Society
07/15/2013 - ArcelorMittal Ostrava, in liaison with Centrum sociálních služeb Ostrava and Centrom sociální podnik charitable organizations, is helping long-term unemployed and socially excluded people with inclusion into the society.
It is offering work under supervision of professionals to 12 people who have faced long-term crises and have not been able to cope with their difficult life situations.
“We are satisfied with all the people who have been working with us since this May and June. They do not recoil from hard work and you can see they are happy to have been given the second chance in their lives,” says Veronika Muroňová, education, development and recruitment department manager at ArcelorMittal Ostrava.
The clients of both charitable organizations, working now at the steelmaking plant, were registered with the Employment Office for a long time and are endangered by permanent social exclusion due to extraordinarily difficult social circumstances which include, for example, completing the service of a term of imprisonment or origin in socio-culturally disadvantaged environment.
The Centrum sociálních služeb Ostrava clients are involved in the cleaning of conveyor belts in the sinter plant. Centrom sociální podnik clients maintain the lawn and planting and clean roads and pavements at the transport plant. “If they work properly and are willing to continue, we will discuss further cooperation options with the two charitable organizations,” adds Muroňová.
“The objective is to prove that the environment or ethnic you come from is unimportant and it is your motivation to work that is essential. We are very glad to see ArcelorMittal contributing to the successful integration of these target groups and to the creation of positive experience on the parts of both the organizations and the workers,” notes Jiří Drastík of Centrum sociálních služeb Ostrava.
ArcelorMittal Ostrava a.s. is the largest steelmaker in the Czech Republic and part of the world’s largest steel and mining group ArcelorMittal. It has an annual production capacity of 3 million tonnes of steel. Besides the Czech market, the company sells its products to more than 40 countries around the world. ArcelorMittal Ostrava and its subsidiaries employ more than 7500 people. Average income of its employees amounted to 34,213 CZK in 2012. ArcelorMittal Ostrava produces iron and steel in compliance with all environmental legislation. It already conforms to the EU best available techniques (BAT) emission limits that will come into force in 2016. The sole shareholder is ArcelorMittal Holdings A.G.
