Objectives

When sourcing labour in regional and remote areas for projects every effort is made to engage with the local workforce by:

• Recruiting local Indigenous employees
• Engaging services from Indigenous contractors
• Developing ongoing business relationships and joint ventures with local Indigenous businesses

Where there is a likelihood of Indigenous employees taking on key tasks, the relevant approved cultural programs will be run with the non-Indigenous workforce to ensure that all communications, beliefs and cultural differences can be integrated in a harmonious manner. The main aim of this is to ensure that all employees needs are known, understood and met without any discrimination based on misunderstanding.

Piacentini & Son believes that by supporting local Indigenous communities a number of key initiatives will result; including:

• Economic sustainability to the communities the employees or businesses are engaged from
• Skill transference through training and personnel development programs
• Engaging with and developing the local community resources directly through financial and mentoring methods or by assisting the strategies in place through our client’s existing programs