We engage in this work not only because it leads to better business outcomes, but most importantly because it is the right thing to do.
Above all, we believe listening and learning is the priority. We will take our time to get it right and be authentic along the way.
Ovintiv’s values and leadership capabilities underpin our commitment to an inclusive workplace.
“From this exercise, we recognize the importance of feedback loops, and we will work with all levels of leadership to continue to design mechanisms to listen and learn from our employees. I am committed to continuing this dialogue and developing the programs, processes and initiatives required to support diverse talent and an inclusive workplace.”
Of the 98% of US employees and 63% of Canadian employees that responded to our survey, our ethnic breakdown is as follows:
United States
84.3% White
7.9% Hispanic / Latino
2.8% Asian
2.2% Two or More
1.3% Black / African American
1.1% American Indian / Alaskan Native
0.2% Native Hawaiian / Other Pacific Islander
Canada
78.1% White
5.2% Chinese
4.1% Indigenous / Aboriginal
3.6% South Asian
2.5% Black
1.3% Filipino
1.3% Other
1.1% Latin American
0.9% Arab
0.6% Korean
0.6% West Asian
0.5% Southeast Asian
0.1% Japanese
Considering Equity in Employee Benefits
Building and strengthening our culture of inclusion has been an important focus for our organization over the past two years. We continue to look for new ways to promote and improve our inclusive culture, including taking deliberate action to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are considered in our employee benefit plans.
In 2021, as part of our yearly benefits assessment, we conducted an Inclusion & Diversity Discovery Assessment. This is an innovative way to evaluate benefit plans and programs using our workforce demographics, diversity of family roles (caregiving, disability, life stage), and broad societal views across ethnicity, race, religion, socioeconomic factors, and other “lenses”. This gave us a wholistic view of our benefits programs, which helped highlight areas of opportunity. While we received exceptional results across most areas, the assessment pointed out opportunities for program improvement in two areas: Family Leave and Family Forming. In 2022, we took action.
Family Leave
We recognize the necessity of extending eligibility of the benefit beyond the birth parent to include adoptive parents and secondary caregivers. This exciting enhancement reinforces our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace, ensures the well-being of our employees, and maximizes flexibility for unique return-to-work needs.
“Great policy change and great to see ‘primary and secondary caregiver’. As an adoptive parent and a member of the LGBTQIA community, this makes me proud of Ovintiv and the steps we are taking as a company to be more inclusive.”
– Michelle, Production Analyst
Family Forming Benefits
Ovintiv recognizes that forming a family can take many different paths. We provide enhanced coverage for fertility treatment, adoption assistance and surrogacy assistance to support our employees through their journeys to growing their families. The addition and enhancement of these benefits provides employees with market-leading benefits that are inclusive of everyone.
SPOTLIGHT
ALLY Energy’s Best
LINK was recently awarded an ALLY Energy GRIT Award for The Best Affinity Group for its efforts to embrace inclusion and collaboration. The award recognizes the group’s accomplishments as well as impacts on recruiting practices and employee experience.
Intl. Women’s Day
Ovintiv employees #Embrance Equity- LINK Coordinated the participation of leaders across the company to show their support of International Women’s Day.
Pride Parades
LINK provided opportunities for employees to participate in Pride events across our corporate locations.
Field Volunteering
Staff in our Dawson Creek office assembled care packages for the BC Northern Health’s Intensive Case Management Team.
Pop-up Volunteering
Nearly 600 bags were assembled in our corporate offices to support three local charities: Urban Peak in Denver, Boys and Girls Club of Greater Houston and the Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association (CIWA).
Networking Events
LINK brought together employees in each of our corporate centers for an afternoon of networking and having some fun along the way.
Random Coffee
An innovative networking concept that regularly matches interested OVV employees with a new colleague for an informal conversation, promoting information sharing and integration across the company.
Calgary Corporate Challenge
Brunch with Brendan
Community Service in the Woodlands
Winner Best Affinity Group (2023)
The ALLY Energy GRIT Award for Best Affinity Group recognizes groups that embrace inclusion and collaboration. The award represents ALLY’s highest honor for internal employee groups, companies, start-ups, and schools.
Included in Globe and Mail’s Women Lead Here benchmark (2023)
A ranking of 500 of the largest (over $50M in revenue) publicly traded companies in Canada in terms of the percentage of female-identifying individuals in the top three tiers of executive management.