Diversity

Over the past five years, we have made significant progress in making Aurizon a more inclusive company where we provide the opportunity for all of our people to do their best work. We believe in gender equality. Some examples of our progress are listed below:

• Women in the workforce:  Since 2011, we have increased the percentage of women in the workforce from 11.6%  to more than 21% today.
• Parenting: In 2016 we introduced our innovative Shared Care program, which provides a financial incentive for a partner to take a leave of absence to stay at home and care for their child in their first year, allowing the mother to return to work full-time. 
• Gender pay gap: We have strategies in place to reduce the gender pay gap at Aurizon, and while we are making good progress, we recognise that there is more that we need to do to continually address the composition and pay of our workforce so that all our people receive fair pay for a fair day's work.
• Workplace flexibility: We understand that our employees often need a more flexible approach to balance their work and life for a number of reasons. This could be to pursue a personal passion, further education, care for an elderly relative, child care, or transition to retirement. To us, flexibility is more than just good policies - it is about flexibility in thinking, challenging assumptions and being innovative, while meeting our customers' needs. We continue to challenge ourselves in exploring the type of roles that can be performed flexibly.

At Aurizon, our employee-led ALLin Network supports Aurizon's Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) inclusion both at work and in the communities where we operate.