At Aldi, we’re proud of the positive impact we have made since we opened our first Irish store over 20 years ago. We have lowered the cost of groceries for our customers, created thousands of jobs, supported Irish suppliers and invested in local communities.
Aldi is a company built on merit and opportunity. Our growth means that we can provide career opportunities for everyone, whatever their background and wherever they work in our business. We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and understand that Aldi needs to better reflect all of the communities we serve, as well as providing more support to minority and under-represented groups.
Aldi is a diverse, inclusive and supportive place to work for everyone and to that end making positive changes to the way we attract, recruit and support our people.
In 2021, we launched our Embrace Strategy to help us on our journey. Embrace is built on five strategic pillars:
1. Employee Engagement and Support
2. Employee Insights and Data
3. Partnerships and External Engagement
4. Employer Branding (Attraction and Selection)
5. Learning, Development and Awareness Raising
Here are some of the actions we are already taking to create an inclusive workplace:
Aldi is an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to creating a diverse workforce. And we’re dedicated to promoting a culture of inclusion, and providing an environment in which collaboration, respect and fairness are essential.
We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any colleague or job applicant regardless of gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller community. It means that Aldi offers equal treatment and equal opportunities to all employees and job applicants.
To view our full Equal Opportunities statement, please click here.
Diversity and Inclusion has never been more important to Aldi, which is why we launched our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, Embrace. There are five key pillars to our strategy: Employee Engagement and Support, Employee Insights and Data, Partnerships and External Engagement, Employer Branding, and Learning and Development.
#TeamAldi has played a vital role, offering their time and sharing their thoughts to help us progress. We're dedicated to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace and supporting our communities. We’re excited to continue fostering an inclusive and respectful culture for all.
When you listen, you learn. One of our Embrace pillars is ‘Employee Insights and Data’. It outlines what we’ve planned to make sure our work environments are inclusive and respectful.
Which is why we introduced confidential ‘listening groups’, surveys and a host of initiatives to understand colleagues lived experiences, perceptions, views and challenges.
One of the great things about inclusion is that nobody feels they have to go it alone. So, as part of our ‘Partnerships and External Engagement’ pillar, we’ve been looking outside for partnerships and schemes that can help us make Embrace work. We are committed to learning from other businesses to make sure we’re taking the right steps for our colleagues.
In an inclusive environment, there’s space for great people to do great things. And building an equitable process helps us attract those people wherever they are.
We’ve removed educational barriers to internal promotion, so that high performing colleagues can go onwards and upwards.
We’ve rolled out Diversity and Inclusion training, launched initiatives and reviewed our selection processes to ensure equal opportunities are offered throughout.
We want to make Diversity & Inclusion an everyday reality for everyone, in every single part of the business. We’re all here together, and we’re all keen to make D&I work for our business and communities. And we’ll look after each other while we make sure that happens.
We all have mental health, just like we all have physical health. With one in four people experiencing a mental health problem at some stage during their lives, many of us at #TeamAldi are likely to be impacted at some point. Our people are central to our ethos at Aldi; that’s why we’re sharing our commitment to continue to invest in improving how we look after colleagues’ mental health.
We’re proud of our wellbeing provision, which supports colleagues across five key areas of ‘MyWellness’ – one of which is mental health. Our mental health strategy is underpinned by three layers of support for #TeamAldi:
through our health and safety policy and procedures, Health and Safety Managers, audits, risk assessments, supported return to work procedures, and the Aldi Management System which fosters a cooperative and positive working environment.
by providing tools and platforms such as MyWellness, our Employee Assistance Programme, access to wellbeing benefits and our mental health partnership with Aware
by providing free services such as the Employee Assistance Programme and ensuring we have well trained Leaders. We’re dedicated to building on this by doing even more to bring additional guidance and support to all colleagues.
We want to give our people the very best support – no matter where they are. We created the MyALDI app for all our colleagues, giving everyone access to the same platform as soon as they join Team Aldi.
MyALDI is a place for colleagues to share their stories and recognise one another for the amazing work they do. It highlights business news, upcoming charity events and provides access to pay slips as well as information about benefits.
Plus, there’s information and contact details for all of our professional partners who are specialists in our five key areas of wellness: mental, nutritional, financial, physical and social. For each area of Wellness, we regularly post useful links, articles and advice which is then available to all of our colleagues, 24 hours a day.
You’ll get more than amazing benefits and development when you join #TeamAldi. And you’ll get more than great support during the recruitment process. Here are some handy hints and tips to help you in the first steps of your application.
