The Paardekooper Works Council

In our RESPECT strategy, the ‘P’ stands for People, the human side of sustainability. The Paardekooper Works Council is an important part of this. The Works Council stimulates long-term thinking within our organisation and actively promotes good working conditions. They achieve this by creating connections between all levels of the organisation, for example by passing on information from the shop floor to the directors. Conversely, our employees are involved in the objectives of the organisation so that it becomes clear why we do what we do. This also applies to our sustainability policy. Clarity creates shared understanding. We can only achieve sustainability when we do so together.

covered 38 different topics. The best part: the training courses were given by our own employees. We are now fully prepared and using the system extensively.

Training for employees,
by employees

Last year, part of Paardekooper Horti switched to a new ERP system. We have done a lot of training together to make this completely our own. In total, 235 employees participated, we provided 160 training courses and

To ensure our employees support our customers and partners as best as possible with their packaging and sustainability issues, we offer our employees knowledge and training in the form of our PK Academy. Our employees can follow internal training courses and watch general knowledge videos via this (online) platform. We have seen that they have put this to good use over the past year.

In addition, we launched a sustainability curriculum at the PK Academy in 2024. This allows us to inform (new) employees about all parts of our sustainability strategy and the materials available.

PK Academy had 437 active users in 2024, and 315 participations in internal training courses.