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Through professional diversity management, with a focus on empowering women and employing people with
disabilities and LGBTI, RBI can contribute to reducing inequality in society. If there is no diversity, RBI risks having
a lack of varying perspectives, which influences business decisions and therefore the company’s results. RBI sees
utilizing different cultures to give added value as an opportunity.
Adequate vocational education and training not only contributes to the success of RBI, but also motivates
employees. The sum of all vocational education and training measures provided by the company also influences
the educational level of our society. This is why RBI offers comprehensive learning opportunities for its employees.
Applying the General Data
Protection Regulation
RBI is committed to protecting its employees’ personal data as a matter of principle. With the entry into force of
the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we carefully examined how we handle employees’ personal
data and made changes to reflect the GDPR requirements. To ensure compliance with the GDPR principles, the
personal data about employees that we collect and process is kept to a minimum and only where there is a legal
basis for doing so (e.g. a legal obligation or explicit consent from the respective employee). Furthermore, employee
data is stored for only as long as this is required to fulfill the respective purpose. Processes and mechanisms for
managing the rights of data subjects (e.g. right of information, right of erasure) have been implemented.
Prior to the GDPR coming into force, all employees were provided with comprehensive information about the
processing of their personal data and their rights under the corresponding provisions of data protection law. To
create awareness and transparency with regard to data protection and data security, a wide range of information,
including manuals, folders and videos, is available to all employees on the intranet. All of the relevant rules and
regulations are set out in the internal company directive “RBI Group Data Protection”. Furthermore, all employees
have completed mandatory e-learning on the topic of data protection and data security. General GDPR training
is also offered to all employees, while customized training is provided for specific target groups. HR, the Group
Data Privacy Office, the data protection officer, the Staff Council and the divisional data protection managers
work in close cooperation to ensure that the data protection provisions concerning employee data are implemented
and continuously updated.
Raiffeisen Bank International | Sustainability Report 2018