Our deal for staff
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Other employee benefits include 27 days annual leave (rising to 30 days over 3 years), flexitime, subsidised gym membership, an excellent pension scheme (for permanent employees), and the provision of interest free season ticket loans. For more information about these and other benefits in the ORR staff package, take a look at Our Deal for Staff. Following ORR’s recent expansion, the benefits package is due to be reviewed during 2006/2007 and so is subject to change.
Equal opportunities
ORR is committed to equal opportunities. Our policy is to provide equal opportunity for employment, career development and promotion to all that are eligible on the basis of ability, qualifications and availability for the work. Applications are welcome from all qualified individuals regardless of gender, race, religious belief, disability, marital status or sexual orientation.
For more information about our commitment to eliminating racial discrimination please see ORR's Race Equality Scheme.
Positive about disability
ORR welcomes job applications from disabled people and is positive about their abilities.
To encourage applications from disabled people we offer an assurance that all disabled applicants who meet the minimum ("essential") criteria will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview stage.
This commitment applies to all vacancies, internal and external without exception.
ORR's Disability Equality Scheme outlines how we intend to meet our Disability Equality Duty going forward. A consultancy will be coming into ORR in 2007 to establish where the organisation is in terms of embedding Equality & Diversity principles into its culture, values, policies and processes, and into its dealings with external organisations. This work will inform not only the Disability Equality Scheme but also ORR's other duties in terms of Race and Gender. For more information please contact the ORR HR Team.
Representation
ORR values employee relations and fosters partnership working with its staff and recognised trade union representatives. Collective agreements that affect staff terms and conditions of employment are negotiated through a formal consultative/negotiative committee.
Nationality
Positions are open to UK nationals, other Commonwealth citizens, British Protected persons, nationals of countries in the European Economic Area and certain members of their families. Commonwealth citizens must be free from any restrictions to reside and take up employment in the UK.
Retirement
The default retirement age for ORR employees is 65. Employees can request to work beyond this age, although it will be at the discretion of ORR. The default pension age for existing Civil Servants (and those appointed before 1 July 2007) is 60, which means that employees can draw their pension from age 60 onwards without any reduction in benefits. The new pension arrangements coming into force on 1 July 2007 have a default pension age of 65.
Financial interests and shareholdings
To avoid conflicts of interest and safeguard personal and Office integrity, ORR staff, their spouses and their dependent children must not hold shares, or take a financial interest in, certain railway industry companies, licensed train operating companies, any company which controls these companies or any companies subject to statutory regulation by the ORR. Staff must also register the employment of a spouse or partner by any such company. In case of doubt please contact Human Resources on 020 7282 2032.
