All applications for employment will be evaluated and selected according to their job related skills, qualifications and abilities.

Decisions based on attributes unrelated to the Code of Business Conduct and/or job performance constitute unlawful discrimination and are prohibited.

We do however seek to understand where applicants have, or appear to have, a conflict of interest with the proposed role at South32.

We require applicants to disclose any pre-existing relationships or interests that could amount to an actual or perceived conflict of interest for the proposed role with South32, including any close relationships with Government Officials.

This is to ensure that any relevant conflicts of interest can be managed appropriately and avoided for the proposed role (For example, through informed and known allocation of work tasks, or necessary segregation of employee duties).

Our Code of Business Conduct contains further information on what might constitute a conflict of interest.

For purposes of this section, ‘Government Official’ has the following meaning as outlined in the glossary to our Code of Business Conduct.

A ‘Government Official’ includes:

• employees or officers of any national, state, regional, local or municipal authorities, as well as from public international organisations and organisations owned or controlled by government bodies;
• politicians, political party officials and candidates;
• leaders of Indigenous, Traditional and/or Tribal Peoples;
• senior members of royal families; and
• in some cases, relatives of the above.

A relative includes a spouse, partner, parent, step-parent, child, step-child, sibling, step-sibling, nephew, aunt, uncle, grandparent, grandchild and partner of any of these.