Mane // 2021 CSR Report

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ENSURE GOOD WORKING CONDITIONS TO IMPROVE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE AT WORK

In 2021, the Group’s absenteeism rate was 3.8%, a low level reflecting generally high morale among our employees at work. Our target for 2021 was to keep the absenteeism rate at less than 4%, a result already achieved for several years.

Ensuring quality of life at work is a challenge that not only involves preventing occupational stress and decreasing absenteeism but also developing the attractiveness of the company and improving employee creativity, commitment, motivation and loyalty. Many actions are carried out within the Group to improve the environment and working conditions. From2011, MANE launched an approach on the prevention of occupational stress, working conditions and more generally the quality of life at work, notably through a significant investment in managerial training. Numerous qualitative actions and approaches have improved the environment and working conditions. In 2018, to go further in this regard, a collective agreement was signed with the V. MANE FILS to decide on new commitments aimed at enabling everyone to achieve the best possible balance between their professional and private lives, and notably: ■ develop support for employee organisations by implementing work ■ increase management capacity so that managers can be even more involved in managing their teams (ensuring appropriate training and support methods and tools are available); ■ support employees in managing illness: extend the transfer of leave days for child illness provided by the company, implement a family carer policy and create part-time jobs for family carers. This agreement was renewed in 2021. from home and reinforcing the right to disconnect; ■ start a new phase of occupational risk prevention;

SOCIAL DIALOGUE

The Group is committed to encouraging social dialogue in all countries where it does business. Freedom of assembly and the right to collective bargaining are key principles in our Group Code of Ethics. We believe that social dialogue can play a productive part in negotiations, consultations or information exchange between the company and employee representatives to encourage cooperation to increase the positive social impact of the company. Across the Group’s sites in France, social dialogue occurs with members of the Social and Economic Committee (CES), which since 2018 has merged all of the employee representative bodies (ERB), employee representatives (EP), Works Council (WC) and Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee (HSWCC).

It is in the field, by paying more attention every day to imagining new solutions to improve the working conditions of our employees, that we demonstrate our exemplary nature: preventing work-related injuries and occupational diseases, and empowering employees and their managers with regard to occupational safety and health, and work-life balance. By benefiting from a quality work environment, our employees can effectively devote themselves to the service of our industrial customers, as well as the millions of consumers we indirectly serve every day, around the world.

SUMMARY OF COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS IN FRANCE

All V. MANE FILS employees are covered by the National Collective Agreement for Chemical and Allied Industries of 30 December 1952. In 2021, five collective agreements were signed, covering the following topics: ■ agreement on wages, working hours and value added sharing of 28 May 2021; ■ profit-sharing agreement of 29 June 2021; ■ amendment No. 7 to agreement establishing the company savings plan (PEE) of 29 June 2021; ■ company agreement to promote the employment of people with disabilities of 28 September 2021; ■ company agreement on the balance between personal and professional life as well as on professional and salary equality of 8 November 2021.

ABSENTEEISM RATE

2021

EMEA

5.3%

ASIA

1.1%

THE AMERICAS

4.9%

WORLD

3.8%

Methodological note: Absenteeism rate: Number of days absent over a 12-month period, compared to the number of working days expected for the employee over the same period.

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