Our commitment
Our HR policy reflects our core values: respect, openness, collaboration, and subsidiarity. We recognize that people are the driving force behind the success of ArcelorMittal Belgium. We aim to create a work environment that attracts talent, fosters development, allows individuals to maintain their uniqueness, and ensures they feel valued. In this cluster policy, we respect local legislation and customs, and we endorse the ResponsibleSteel principles.
We ask our external partners to implement a personnel policy that aligns with the stated principles and complies with local legislation.
For and by our employees
Every employee is responsible for implementing this policy. Managers have an additional role in this regard: together with HR, they create a work environment that actively supports the application of HR principles.
To fulfill our commitments, we apply the following core principles:
- Health and safety: We ensure healthy and safe working
conditions at all our sites, including mental well-being. We
take general care of one another.
- Inclusivity: We strive for an inclusive work environment
where everyone has equal rights and opportunities.
Behaviour that contradicts these principles is not
tolerated.
- Integrity: We actively support a culture in which
employees act ethically, with honesty, transparency,
respect, and leading by example at the core. We respond
consistently to any form of inappropriate behavior.
- Human sustainability: We aim to consider employees’
personal ambitions and work preferences, in their
different life stages, and implement a policy that makes
sustainable jobs a topic of open discussion to promote
long-term well-being.
- Leadership: We foster a strong leadership culture and accountability, and reward and value our employees fairly based on their performance. We strive for a collaborative, productive, and innovative work environment.
- Talent development: We believe in the continuous
development of our people. As an organization, we
actively invest in training and encourage and support our
employees to further develop their talents and skills. This
enhances both their versatility and their engagement with
their work and the organization.
- Continuous improvement: We aim for a culture in which mutual expectations are shared and aligned with reality. Feedback plays a key role in this process. We maintain an open and constructive dialogue with our employees and their representatives to continuously improve our policies.
We pursue a dual mission: On the one hand, we support the
needs of our organization and stakeholders in both the short
and long term. On the other hand, we are committed to
shaping a working environment where people feel good, can
be themselves and are encouraged to grow. We care for their
well-being, take into account their needs at every stage of life
and career, and ensure that everyone is treated with respect.
We expect our employees to continuously develop their
skills, embrace diversity, care for one another, and uphold our
core corporate values: respect, openness, collaboration and
subsidiarity. We support this through open and transparent
communication and dialogue with employees and all
stakeholders. To reinforce these efforts, we place a strong
focus on digitalization.
We believe in the following principles to help us achieve our goals:
- We strive to create an inclusive work environment
where everyone enjoys equal rights and opportunities,
regardless of race, skin colour, nationality, origin, national
or ethnic background, disability, religion or belief, sexual
orientation, age, financial status, marital status, political
opinion, trade union affiliation, health condition, physical
or genetic characteristics, birth, social background or
gender. Behavior that contradicts these principles will
not be tolerated.
- We aim to be the preferred employer for both current and
future employees, responding to the evolving trends in our
society.
- To meet the needs of the organization, we strive to make
the most of our employees’ potential. We deploy their
talents flexibly to remain agile and proactively manage
change. We challenge and support our people to shape
their careers in line with their potential and ambitions and
we aim to respond to organizational needs by deploying
talent where it is most urgently required.
- We also take into account employees’ personal ambitions
and work preferences, as well as the different stages of
life. We pursue a policy that makes sustainable jobs a
topic of open discussion, with the aim of promoting longterm well-being and vitality.
- We are committed to the continuous development
of our employees. On the one hand, we invest as an
organization in training and development. On the other,
we encourage our people to actively develop their talents
and competencies to support broad employability and
strengthen engagement across the organization.
- We foster a culture in which mutual expectations are
shared and assessed against reality. Feedback plays a
key role in this process. Employees and managers are
informed and aware of the tools available both to take
ownership of their careers and to provide support where
needed.
- We promote open and transparent communication with
employees, managers, social partners, and all other
stakeholders. We encourage consultation and bottom-up
ideas at every level.
- We want to create a work environment where our employees enjoy working, where attention is paid to resilience and support during difficult phases of life, but where consistent action is also taken in the event of undesirable behavior, substandard performance, and breaches of agreements.
- We strive to establish partnerships with all departments in order to share our mutual needs and actions.
- We ensure continuous optimization of our processes and systems. We focus on digitization to properly support our processes with data and analysis, provide adequate service and training to all employees and departments, and maintain continuous contact with external stakeholders, candidates, and partners.
Version April 1, 2025
