Uganda Breweries named overall winner for Best HR Practices in Uganda

Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) has been recognized as the overall winner for the Best Human Resource (HR) Practices in Uganda during the Prudential Best HR Practices Report Launch for 2021 at Kampala Serena Hotel.

The recognition came following the Prudential Best HR practices survey with various industry players, on the best HR practices critical for influencing excellent employment practices in Uganda today.

To emerge overall winner, UBL came among the top three in 6 different thematic areas of the study: Organisation Performance and Confidence, Quality and Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Compliance and Employee wellbeing and wellness.

"Each of the categories listed above is very core to our operations as a business with some headlining our Society 2030: Spirit of Progress agenda. Diversity and Inclusion for instance is an agenda through which we have been able to overcome long held societal beliefs and stereotypes at the work place," UBL says adding:

"Women have for long not been considered for some jobs, even with the required expertise. We are overcoming that at UBL by employing women in production processes that were previously men’s stronghold. Currently, one of our production lines, is managed by a 75% female staff and has a production capacity of over 25,000 bottles.

"On top of that, and having in mind that we need our employees to develop at work as they equally develop at home, the brewery grants 6 months and 1 month of paid leave to our female and male employees respectively to allow them dedicate time to bringing up their families and not be wholly consumed by work.

At the beginning of last year, as founder members of the Uganda Business and Disability Network, we committed to make our work place PWD accessible both in physical transformation of workplaces and creating an enabling psychological environment in readiness. As part of that commitment, we have held several debiasing sessions to empower and prepare staff at UBL for a grander plan to ensure that at least 10% of all our recruits are people with disabilities."

In her acceptance speech for the Award, UBL Human Resource Director Catherine Njonjo thanked the entire UBL Staff for working every day to ensure that the company puts the welfare, wellbeing of the entire staff at the forefront, but even more so, the entire UBL family that puts in practice the guidelines that we put in place. She dedicated the award to all staff.

“I am overwhelmed with gratitude that our company has been recognized as the overall winner for Best HR Practices in Uganda. I am honored that this amazing company gets to be recognized for what, internally, we already see and live every day. Uganda Breweries truly is the best place to work, and I am happy that the rest of the country gets to celebrate that with us today,” Njonjo said.

The brewery also received awards for two of the categories we were nominated in; Organisation Performance and Confidence as well as Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Compliance.

The survey that was commissioned by Prudential Uganda in partnership with Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU), Federation of Uganda Employers (FUE), Human Capital International, Brighter Monday and audited by PwC Uganda attracted participation of close to 2,000 employees from over 500 organizations in Uganda.