PotashCorp provides a full range of benefits to its full-time workforce in the US and Canada, including health care, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, disability coverage, pension plans, maternity/parental leave, savings plan, short-term incentive plan and stock ownership through the company's savings plans.

Temporary employees in Canada (but not in the United States) qualify for life insurance, health care, AD&D insurance and parental leave.

• In Canada, collective bargaining agreements and provincial labor legislation require one to eight weeks' minimum notice for layoffs, usually depending on the employee's length of employment.
• In the United States, the notice period depends on the circumstances but ranges from two to eight weeks.
• In Brazil, the minimum notification period is four weeks.

• Personal protective equipment;
• Joint management-employee health and safety committee;
• Participation of worker representatives in health and safety inspections, audits, and accident investigations;
• Complaints mechanism;
• Arrangements or structures for resolving problems; and
• Commitments regarding target performance standards or level of practice to apply.

• Training and education;
• Right to refuse unsafe work; and
• Periodic inspections.

In 2007, each PotashCorp employee received an average of 57 hours of training.

The top five training categories were:

• Training to improve job skills (37 percent of training hours provided);
• Safety training (18 percent);
• Crisis and emergency response training (10 percent);
• Apprenticeship training (7 percent); and
• Employee development (6 percent).

PotashCorp provides internal training courses, funding support for external training, and tuition assistance for college-level degrees. In 2007, PotashCorp assisted 90 employees across the company with tuition reimbursements totaling $146,424.

PotashCorp provides only a limited amount of transitional assistance to support employees who are leaving the company for reasons of retirement or termination. The approach varies from country to country.

• Proposed Climate Change legislation - PotashCorp is providing comments through The Fertilizer Institute to ensure that legislature is based on good science.
• "Energy Independence and Security Act" - This law increases the biofuels/ethanol mandate in the U.S. to 36 billion gallons by 2022. PotashCorp supports this legislation.
• "Secure Handling of Ammonium Nitrate Act of 2007" - The company supports the need to have standardized regulations that ensure ammonium nitrate supplies are secure and safe from those who would use this product for destructive causes.
• "The National Environment and Energy Development Act" - PotashCorp supported this Act which seeks to terminate long-standing federal prohibitions on the domestic production of abundant offshore supplies of natural gas.
• "Farm, Nutrition, and BioEnergy Act of 2007" - PotashCorp supported the final Act which contained language favorable to U.S. agriculture and the fertilizer industry.

In 2007, the US Political Action Committee, funded by company employees, made financial contributions totaling $12,000. In addition, one PAC contribution was made in North Carolina which totaled $1,000.

In Canada, PotashCorp's political contributions totaled $2,781. This was used primarily to purchase fundraising tickets for each of the three Saskatchewan political parties.

In both Trinidad and Brazil, the company made no financial contributions to any political organizations.

PotashCorp does not make in-kind contributions to political parties.

PotashCorp meets product registration and labeling requirements in all its markets. PotashCorp is subject to feed and fertilizer labeling requirements in most jurisdictions where it makes or sells its products. As a result, it can provide information on sourcing; product content; and the safe use and disposal of the product.

Product labels are reviewed regularly to ensure they comply with all laws and regulations.

PotashCorp conducts annual customer surveys. The information provides the basis for setting targets for improvement in areas of customer satisfaction.

Based on results of the 2007 customer surveys, PotashCorp outperformed all its competitors in customer service in all four product groups, outperformed all competitors for product quality for two product groups, finished second of eight competitors in fertilizer quality ratings and third in purified phosphoric acid quality ratings.