PGHH_AR_2020

Annual Report 2019-20 21 Company Overview Board's Report MD&A Corporate Governance Financial Statements Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Limited did not receive any complaints on sexual harassment, during the Financial Year. All the employees and persons engaged on temporary / contractual basis were given safety & skill up-gradation training. Principle 4: Stakeholder Engagement & Relation Your Company acknowledges that improving transparency, respecting human and labor rights and sourcing responsibly is an enormous challenge and progress will be made through a journey of collaboration and engagement with our stakeholders. Thus, we seek meaningful collaboration and engagement with our stakeholders including employees, shareholders, consumers, customers, communities, external business partners, authorities, NGOs, industry associations and the government. Your Company also believes that only way to build a sustainable business is to improve lives. It engages with disadvantaged, vulnerable and marginalized stakeholders through its Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, which include P&G Shiksha and Timely Disaster Relief. The Company’s CSR initiatives are elaborated in the CSR Report which is appended as Annexure II to the Report. As a responsible corporate citizen in India, your Company stepped up and partnered with the government and relief organizations to serve employees, consumers and communities in need via our holistic COVID-19 response and relief program #PGSurakshaIndia . Principle 5: Human Rights Our core values as a Company include treating everyone with respect. We have a strong non- discrimination policy and have zero tolerance for unlawful discrimination. Your Company advocates for all employees, regardless of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age or disability. We respect everyone’s right to be who they are, and want all employees to feel safe, included and able to bring their whole selves to work. We aspire to create a gender-equal world with equal representation for all individuals. We are committed to driving equality within the Company. We are adopting equality based policies, broadening our definition of leadership and empowering our people to join us in building a workplace that is equal for all individuals. We are driving equality across the shop floor through deliberate interventions right from the recruitment stage. We are driving thought-leadership and advocating for gender equality outside of the Company by leveraging external platforms like India Economic Summit by World Economic Forum and Bloomberg Equality Summit. Your Company had undertaken following initiatives for employees to work in an inclusive environment that values and respects who they are: GABLE network Your Company has taken a stand for inclusion and added sexual orientation to its non-discrimination policies. We have set up the ‘GABLE network’ for fostering workplace equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) employees. Men Advocating Real Change™ (MARC) Your Company believes that the requisite skills to succeed as leaders and beyond include the ability to be empathetic and inclusive. Given the critical role men play in advancing women and in achieving gender equality, we have partnered with Catalyst on their MARC™ initiative, to engage the hearts and minds of men as full partners in achieving gender equality inside and outside the Company. Through this effort, men better understand the impact that stereotypes, unconscious bias and male-dominant culture have on women’s career progression. Whisper-#KeepGirlsInSchool Whisper has been leveraging its voice to challenge societal barriers to menstrual hygiene in the country through its pathbreaking campaigns like #TouchThePickle , #SitImproper and #WhispersBreakSilence , breaking the age old stereotypes about gender expectations. Building on that, this year, Whisper initiated a new campaign ‘#KeepGirlsInSchool’ to prevent girls from dropping out from schools when they get their periods. As part of this campaign, Whisper aims to create awareness on how even today, girls across India drop out of school on hitting puberty. The campaign brings to light and pledges to double the impact of their existing menstrual hygiene education program by reaching 5 crore girls by 2022. #Mobileshaala- free phone-based learning platform The premature closure of schools due to the pandemic affected access to education especially for girls from marginalized communities, making them even more vulnerable to dropping out of school completely. Whisper , in partnership with Pratham Education