We embrace diversity
The importance we place on diversity can be seen in our vision:
“We believe that businesses with a mixed team of men and women, young and old, Austrians and non-Austrians make us more successful in the market. Ölz der Meisterbäcker believes in diversity”, says Bernhard Ölz, Managing Director and owner.
Integration award for Ölz – integration through joint learning
Ölz employees people from more than 40 different countries. For its project ‘German in the workplace - we understand!’, the family-run business Ölz was awarded the Vorarlberg Integration Award 2017 in the large company category.
This project provides help to production assistants for their linguistic integration. Organised in cooperation with the Götzis adult education centre and Capito, German courses are held in small groups during working hours to improve cohesion. A learning platform is also available that additionally provides company documents in easy to understand language. This platform comprises course contents with learning quizzes along with a constantly growing Ölz dictionary along with familiar images.
Ölz has also supported the START(Verein Start Stipendiaten Österreich) integration project for many years.
We act sustainably
From our employees to the cooperation with our stakeholders and organisations – we accept our sustainable social responsibility out of love for our fellow humans.
