60 Nadine Zürcher Head of Human Resources, Girsberger AG and Girsberger Holding AG Manuela Kurbjuhn Head of Human Resources, Girsberger GmbH Social affairs Equal treatment, equal opportunities and equal pay Motivated, committed employees with a high level of expertise are the key to the successful further development of our group of companies. For this reason, the satisfaction of our employees and their identification with the company are permanently given the highest priority as a fundamentally important objective. We place particular importance on tolerance, open-mindedness, flexibility and mutual respect in our daily actions and in our dealings with one another. We regard diversity as an opportunity and our resource for inventiveness and innovation. Our corporate culture is characterised by a shared passion for our products and collegial cooperation as the basis for a high level of identification with the company. Girsberger employs people with a total of 21 different nationalities. This diversity is an enrichment for all of us and it promotes cultural exchanges. We are committed to equal treatment and equal opportunities. Employment, promotion, appraisal, remuneration and severance are always and exclusively based on the job position and performance. Personal traits such as gender, ethnic background, nationality, age, sexual orientation or gender identity, religion or political views must never be decision-making criteria. Furthermore, discrimination, any kind of harassment, intimidation, oppression, exploitation and physically or psychologically unsafe working conditions are always unacceptable and will not be tolerated at Girsberger. The mission statement “ WE ARE GIRSBERGER” and the Girsberger Quality Commitment together form the basis of our corporate culture, corporate governance and employee management. We review pay equality on a regular basis, at least once a year, to ensure that there is also strict equality for all employees in terms of wages and salaries. At the Bützberg site, this is done using the online “ Logib” tool provided by the Federal Office for Gender Equality (FOGE); in Endingen, this is done after an internal analysis of identical or comparable tasks. The past reporting period continued to be dominated by the worldwide Covid pandemic and was also largely affected by the restrictions imposed by the respective national governments. At the Endingen site, the number of sickness-related absences was at a high level of 4,438 hours in 2022. To prevent infection, strict hygiene measures were observed and, where possible, employees were transferred to working from their home offices. This enabled us to maintain daily operations without interruption, especially in the production area. After the measures were lifted in the spring/summer of 2022, a sense of normality returned. It was again possible to organise events for employees and maintain social contacts. Working from a home office, which was recommended and in some cases mandated during the pandemic, has now become an established part of our employees’ everyday working life. More flexibility in the organisation of work also positively supports or influences a harmonious work/life balance. Looking back, one of the biggest challenges in the reporting period was recruiting new employees. The shortage of skilled workers was and also remains clearly noticeable at Girsberger. The recruitment of employees, especially specialists and junior staff, i.e. trainees, will remain one of the foremost challenges of the coming reporting period. The baby boomers will be leaving the company in the next few years since they will have reached their retirement age, which will exacerbate this challenge. We are in the midst of a demographic shift. This means that our future recruitment campaigns will, for example, also increasingly explore new avenues via social media to address different target groups and also use these channels to bolster our image as an employer. The company’s attractiveness as an employer will continue to be strengthened and consolidated in the future with targeted measures. Our respective objectives and actions here are described in the following topics. Manuela Kurbjuhn, Nadine Zürcher Our employees and corporate citizenship
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