Social activities

Employees

In the competition for qualified professionals, companies that offer a diverse, interesting, and varied working environment and that ensure a good balance between work and private life have a decisive advantage.

Our HR policy is characterized by long-term cooperation with our employees, high quality standards in training and further education, as well as social measures that make the reconciliation of work and private life a reality.

Since 2006, we have held the “berufundfamilie” certificate and have been continuously working to improve the working environment within the OeKB Group. Since 2024, OeHT, in addition to the OeKB and OeKB CSD, has also been part of the certification.

Healthy and motivated employees are a key success factor for the future of the OeKB Group. Safety and health protection have therefore been a major concern for many years.

Details on the implemented measures can be found here: Jobs and Careers – What We Offer

All positions are available for both full-time and part-time employees.

As a company, we are actively committed to improving the perspectives of employees from underrepresented groups and those who are marginalized. In this context, we have initiated several projects, including:

• We are committed to increasing the proportion of employees with disabilities. To this end, we have entered into a cooperation with myAbility. Last year, three people with disabilities took part in a shadowing program, designed to provide practical insight into everyday work. 
• Representative for employees with disabilities: Employees with disabilities have the opportunity to contact our representative for employees with disabilities regarding their concerns and questions, who provides individual support and advice.
• Women’s network: In addition, a women’s network is currently being established, which aims to connect and promote women within the OeKB Group and to specifically take their concerns into account.

You can find more information on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the OeKB Group here.

At OeKB, OeEB, and OeKB CSD, a works council is in place. The works council represents the interests of all employees, supports them in matters related to labor law, and concludes works agreements with OeKB. In addition, the works council makes an important contribution to the corporate culture and working environment. All seven members of the OeKB works council are represented on the Supervisory Board, where they actively bring the employees’ perspectives into the decision-making processes.

Through works agreements, both anonymous (whistleblowing) and non-anonymous complaint and reporting systems for employees have been established. As an employer, it is important to us to provide our employees with space to express their concerns and complaints.

Furthermore, we have implemented various feedback mechanisms that allow employees, both anonymously and personally, to share their views on development, employment issues, further training, and similar topics. Regular leadership feedback (270° feedback) and topic-specific pulse checks are conducted to measure leadership quality, job satisfaction, and development opportunities within the company culture.

In addition, the People & Culture department and the works council are available as contact points for personal discussions on employment-related matters. Based on the evaluation of psychological stress in the workplace in 2023, numerous improvement measures were implemented directly in the departments.

As a further measure resulting from this evaluation, workshops on resilience and stress were conducted in cooperation with occupational physicians and work psychologists.
 

Human Rights

Respecting and promoting human rights is a central part of the responsibility of the OeKB KI Group. As a company with a public mandate, we are aware of our special role and use our opportunities in cooperation with all stakeholders to actively support the protection of human rights.

Our human rights policy is based on internationally recognized standards (UNGPs – United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights) and is aligned with the fields of action defined in the “Ruggie Framework”:

• Protect – Protection of human rights (duty of the state)
• Respect – Respect for human rights (responsibility of companies)
• Remedy – Remedy in the event of human rights violations (shared responsibility of state and companies)

In 2025, we revised our human rights policy and further developed processes relating to our grievance mechanism and measures along the value chain.

As a corporate group – consisting of Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG (OeKB), Oesterreichische Entwicklungsbank AG (OeEB), OeKB CSD GmbH (CSD), and Österreichische Hotel- und Tourismusbank GmbH (OeHT) – we clearly commit to:

• the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)
• the eight Core Conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO)
• the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
• and the principles of the International Bill of Human Rights (IBHAR)

In addition, we are guided by the IFC Performance Standards, the principles of the UN Global Compact (UNGC), and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which form our strategic framework.

This underlines the OeKB KI Group’s clear commitment: the protection, promotion, and respect of human rights are central foundations of our responsible conduct.

Here you will find the Human Rights Policy, which is binding for the OeKB KI Group and along the value and financing chain.

Donations

OeKB supports projects and organizations that focus on people and are committed to enabling everyone to live a dignified life with opportunities - regardless of their origin, ethnicity, or gender. When selecting projects, we place particular emphasis on ensuring that the initiatives we support create lasting social benefits.

Preferred targets of OeKB donations 

• Education/research
• Development work
• Refugee aid/integration 
• Diversity/equity/inclusion
• Social issues
• Humanitarian aid/social issues/poverty reduction
• Disaster relief
• Children/child welfare
• Art/culture/media
• Medical aid
• Human rights
• Sustainability

We also ensure that at least 50% of OeKB's donations go to projects that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion
 

• Austrian Donation Seal (OSGS; only in German)
• List of beneficiary institutions (BMF; only in German)

Voluntary Commitment of Our Employees

As a socially responsible employer, we support our employees in engaging socially in various ways. We organize donation campaigns and offer a comprehensive Corporate Volunteering Program. In the event of a disaster, we promote work with emergency organizations by granting time-limited paid leave.

Corporate Volunteering

Since the OeKB Group takes an active role as a creator and facilitator of sustainable social development, we have been offering our employees the opportunity to participate in our Corporate Volunteering Program since 2019.

Together with our cooperation partners Teach For Austria and START, we organize workshops several times a year in which OeKB Group employees work with students and contribute their knowledge to different focus areas. These include topics such as application training, introducing various departments, or presenting the Group’s core business areas.

Participating employees voluntarily contribute their working time and/or expertise while gaining insights into “different worlds.” In this way, they can develop new perspectives and make a valuable contribution to our society.
 

Audit "berufundfamilie"

We continuously work on improving the working conditions for our employees. In doing so, we naturally involve our employees themselves. Since 2006, we have been certified within the framework of the “berufundfamilie” audit as a family-friendly employer.