HIV/AIDS Training
Mount Nelson Hotel has implemented its own successful policy to manage and reduce the impact and effects of HIV/AIDS in the workplace. It is the hotel’s intention to ensure that any staff member infected with HIV/AIDS will not be discriminated against in terms of the company’s employment policies and practices, and that they are supported in such a way as to enable them to continue work productively for as long as they are medically fit to do so.
The programme incorporates the following initiatives:
• Policy development
• HIV/AIDS information seminars
• Management training
• Information booklets and posters
Training and Development
Mount Nelson Hotel offers a challenging four year practical in-service training programme to previously disadvantaged candidates wishing to pursue a career in the hotel industry. Each year the programme is offered to three Chef and four Hotel Management candidates who are given the opportunity to obtain a formal qualification in their respective fields and gain hands-on experience working in various departments of the hotel.
Staff Rewards Programme
The ‘You Make The Difference Staff Recognition Programme’ was designed to encourage staff to recognise and acknowledge achievement of their peers’ daily work efforts and extraordinary commitment to the hotel’s standards. Employees are financially rewarded and at the end of the year, the twelve monthly winners are nominated for ‘Employee of the Year’, entitling them to a large cash prize and an overseas trip to an Orient-Express destination.
