Fostering collaboration and respect

Agnico Eagle’s people and culture have always been a competitive strength and advantage. We seek to be a place where people want to work because it is meaningful and offers purpose, and one where they are given the opportunity to achieve their full potential. As we grow, we know we must maintain our culture and focus, while increasing our inclusivity, to remain a leading employer thriving through societal changes.

2022 Key Highlights

Employees and contractors working worldwide at the end of the year	14,133
Of training hours delivered to Agnico Eagle employees in 2022	311,000
Of our workforce from local employment	61%
Employees at our operations who are indigenous	694

 

Diversity and Inclusion 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) are fundamental to Agnico Eagle’s core values of Family, Trust, Respect, Responsibility and Equality and essential to the growth and success of the Company. Together we are working to create a diverse, inclusive and collaborative workplace for all where everyone can show up to work as themselves free of barriers or feelings of exclusion.

We have a Diversity and Inclusion Policy that outlines our commitments and responsibilities, including treating each other equally, fairly and consistently with equal access to opportunities and recognition, valuing workforce diversity, and promoting the benefits of diversity and inclusion. Our Diversity and Inclusion Council has evolved into a Steering Committee, with executive sponsors and dedicated resources to ensure a governance approach and has oversight responsibility for the monitoring and implementation of the Diversity and Inclusion Policy and works with corporate and site teams to communicate diversity and inclusion strategies and to monitor, track and audit performance. Discriminatory practices and harassment are not tolerated and any reported instances are formally investigated with appropriate disciplinary action taken.

Our global long-term strategy was developed with priorities to accelerate and broaden the Company’s approach to DEI. This long-term strategy is based on employee feedback by formal survey, available data and other feedback mechanisms, both formal and informal and covers three key pillars.

We continued to collect baseline information to begin reporting more meaningful metrics for diversity and inclusion. In 2022, we created an internal DEI Index that measures perception of inclusion and perceptions of fairness at Agnico Eagle through the Great Place to Work™ survey. This helps us better analyze how our employees feel about DEI as well as focus our resources and shape our actions.

As we continue to move forward on our journey, we will do so thoughtfully, respectfully and with the continued support and input from our employees. 

Maximizing Local Employment

Our goal is to hire 100% of our workforce, including our management teams, directly from the region/country in which each of our operations is located. In 2022, local regional employment at Agnico Eagle was 61% for all employees and 70% for senior management.
 
Our Kittilä, Goldex, LaRonde and Fosterville operations are more than 85% operated by persons living locally or in the region. At Kittilä, our employees come mainly from Finnish Lapland, employees at Goldex and LaRonde Complex come mainly from the Abitibi region in Quebec, Canada, and employees in Fosterville Mine are mainly from Bendigo regional area.

At Pinos Altos and La India mines in Mexico, 100% of the workforce is from Mexico, with the majority living in the northern states of Chihuahua, Sonora, and Sinaloa. We continue to work on recruiting and retaining employees from smaller communities in proximity to the mine sites. 

Due to the remote nature of our Detour Lake Mine and Nunavut operations, these sites operate on a rotational basis. Employees, whether from the south or nearby communities, are transported to the sites to live and work at the mine for the duration of their work rotation. We remain focused on hiring from the local regions. At Detour Lake Mine 54% of employees are from Northern Ontario and 15% of Nunavut employees are local to the Kivalliq or Kitikmeot regions.

To learn more about our employment performance, initiatives and priorities, click here.

To read about some of our People related stories, click here.