The average number of employees of the UNIQA Group increased to 15,107 in 2009 (2008: 13,674) due to the inclusion for the first time of the companies of the SIGAL Group in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia as well as Raiffeisen Life Insurance Company LLC in Moscow and the first full consolidation of PremiaMed Management GmbH and the sub-group of PKB Privatkliniken Beteiligungs GmbH. Of these, 6,345 (2008: 6,269) were in employed in sales and 8,762 (2008: 7,405) in administration. In the Eastern Emerging Markets (EEM), UNIQA employed a staff of 4,048 in the 2009 financial year (2008: 3,718), 3,246 people (2008: 2,954) in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and 987 (2008: 986) in the Western European markets (WEM). In Austria, 6,826 staff were employed (2008: 6,016). Excluding the 884 employees of PremiaMed Management GmbH and the sub-group of PKB Privatkliniken Beteiligungs GmbH, the number of employees in Austria is reduced to 5,942. Including the employees of the general agencies working exclusively for UNIQA, the total number of people working for the UNIQA Group amounts to just about 22,000.
51% of the administrative staff employed in Austria in 2009 were women, 18.7% (2008: 18.5%) of the employees were part-time. The average age in the past year remained 42 years (2008: 42 years). In total, 11.3% (2008: 11.3%) of the employees participated as managers in UNIQA’s result-oriented remuneration system – a variable payment system that is tied both to the success of the company and to personal performance. In addition, the UNIQA apprentice exchange programme offers young people in training the opportunity to get to know foreign cultures and make international contacts.
