Hundreds will attend a dinner in Mount Gambier tonight to honour 45 long-serving employees of the Kimberly-Clark Australia Millicent Mill.

Job mobility is a current trend throughout Australia with 56% of the 13.8 million people employed nationwide being in their current role for less than five years.

However, the local tissue manufacturer is bucking the trend with over 50% of employees at Kimberly-Clark Australia’s mill in Millicent staying for more than 15 years.

Two such employees are Meredith and Simon Phillips, a married couple sharing over 52 years’ experience at the company’s mill in Millicent.

They and 43 other employees are to be inducted tonight to the company’s ‘Quarter Century Club’, which celebrates those reaching 25 years’ of service.

Almost 30% of the Millicent Mill’s workforce are now part of the Quarter Century Club – and the 45 new inductees will bring 1172 years’ shared service with them when they join ranks with 395 former and existing colleagues nationwide.

Among the attendees tonight will be well-known sporting identity and KCA Millicent Mill warehouse controller Ted Peacock (pictured).

Mr Peaccock is Glencoe Football Clubb president and marks 40 years with KCA this very month.

Tonight’s dinner at The Barn is expected to be overseen by Millicent Mill manager Adam Carpenter.

He heads the 63-year-old plant which has a company workforce of 350 and 50 contractors.

Kimberly-Clark last sponsored such a dinner around 15 years ago. Since that time, some yearly self-funded dinners have been staged in Millicent.

These were suspended a few years ago on account of COVID.