Kmart Group - People
Kmart Group maintained focus on gender balance in leadership, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment and leadership, disability employment, accessibility and LGBTQIA+ inclusion.
This year, the division achieved 40:40:20 gender balance across all layers of leadership, including general manager, senior manager and manager. Women represent 48.5 per cent of all leadership roles.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander team members make up 4.8 per cent (2,200 team members) of Kmart Groups’ ‘at work’ Australian workforce (worked in the past 30 days), an increase from 4.3 per cent (1,986 team members) in 2023. This is in part due to the division’s ongoing commitment to the Deadly Stores program which focuses on meaningful employment, cultural confidence, and cultural safety for Indigenous team members.
Representation of Indigenous team members in leadership roles is 1.6 per cent (74 team members), an increase from 1.4 per cent (65 team members) in 2023. The division continued its focus on building cultural competence with 15,750 instances of cultural awareness training completed during the year.
Team members identifying with a disability increased from 1.3 per cent (551 team members) to 2.0 per cent (823 team members). Kmart Group appointed a Workplace Adjustment Advisor and launched a Workplace Adjustment Policy to provide improved accessibility for team members with a disability. Kmart Group is one of four participating businesses in the Australian Government’s career pathways pilot for people with disability.
Kmart Group continued its ‘Welcome Here’ program, which provides team members and leaders with LGBTQIA+ awareness training, resources and the opportunity to wear allyship and pronoun stickers. Participating stores increased from 14 last year to 60 this year.
Kmart Group’s safety performance continued to improve with TRIFR reducing 12.2 per cent to 6.5, driven predominantly by Kmart Group’s alignment of safety processes and the introduction of the supported duties program into Kmart. Consolidation and simplification of the Kmart Group safety management system will continue to drive further improvements with a focus on hazard risk reduction initiatives targeting known injury causation.
GRI 3-3, GRI 403-1, GRI 403-2, GRI 403-3, GRI 403-4, GRI 403-5, GRI 403-6, GRI 403-7