L'Oréal - 2018 Registration Document

L’Oréal’s corporate social, environmental and societal responsibility POLICIES, PERFOR MANCE INDICATORS AND RESULTS

2020 TARGETS

2018 RESULTS

Over 63,584 people from socially or financially disadvantaged communities have had access to work. 56,842 people accessed work through the Solidarity Sourcing programme. 5,565 people from extremely vulnerable environments were trained in beauty professions.

100,000 people from socially or financially deprived communities will be able to access work through the following programme:

Solidarity Sourcing; s

Professionalisation in the business of beauty; s

Employment of disabled people and people from under-represented s socio-ethnic groups.

1,177 people with disabilities worked for L’Oréal (1) .

This figure takes into account the total number of disabled employees (with permanent and fixed-term employment contracts) as of 31 December 2018. (1) This indicator only takes into account employees who wanted to declare their disability and have it recognised, as all the employees concerned do not systematically wish to do so.

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The environmental risks related to L’Oréal’s sites and activities may have an impact on the local communities where the Group operates. In this area, L’Oréal has a long-standing commitment to managing risks and reducing its environmental footprint, and is implementing an ambitious policy described in section 3.3.1. For prospective acquisitions of premises or building land, L’Oréal must ensure that the former owners and/or occupiers have not been unfairly removed and/or that any expropriation by the authorities was conducted in accordance with international law, namely with the free agreement and compensation of the previous owners and/or occupants. Via its Solidarity Sourcing programme and thanks to its many industrial and administrative sites all over the world, L’Oréal is strongly involved in the life of local communities in the areas neighbouring its sites. A company committed to demonstrating strong corporate citizenship, L’Oréal makes a contribution to many local projects. This ambition was reflected in a commitment in the Sharing Beauty With All programme: to enable over 100,000 people from socially or financially disadvantaged communities to access work by the end of 2020. This means that L’Oréal will support as many people outside the Company as there are employees in the Group. L’Oréal also created its global Solidarity Sourcing programme in 2010. Its aim is to put the Group’s purchasing power in the service of social inclusion by devoting part of its purchases to suppliers that provide access to work and a sustainable income for people generally excluded from the labour market, economically vulnerable communities, including small businesses and those that have trouble accessing major contractors. The Solidarity Sourcing programme concerns for example: fair trade producers, companies which employ disabled workers, social insertion enterprises or companies owned by minorities (when this is permitted by the national legislation). Global beneficiaries of the Programme included 2,080 people with disabilities in 23 countries in 2018. This represents an increase of 39% over four years. Solidarity Sourcing offers a novel purchasing approach due to its global, holistic nature: the programme is deployed in all the geographic zones; s it concerns all areas of purchases (raw materials, packaging, subcontracting, promotional items and s indirect retail, etc.); it comprises an environmental aspect for the projects that require it. s See under “Giving preference to the use of sustainably sourced renewable raw materials” in section 3.3.1.3.3. “Throughout the product life cycle”.

Throughout the production chain

A responsible approach to property assets

Responsible sourcing

Solidarity Sourcing: Using the Group’s purchasing power to serve social inclusion

In 2018, as part of the Solidarity Sourcing programme, 56,842 economically or socially vulnerable people gained permanent employment.

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