TRANSFORMING TRANSFORMING TRANSFORMING SUSTAINABILITY REPORT FY 2023 COMMUNITIES THE PLANET THE WORKPLACE Easing the transition to work for new mothers Workforce Breakdown: Gender Motherhood places several demands on safe hands and under proper the new mother, who very often has to supervision. This helps eligible balance multiple priorities. At Vedanta, we employees enjoy peace of mind as they understand these needs and are are close at hand in case of need, while committed to making motherhood a they can simultaneously fulfil their smoother experience. professional responsibilities. To ensure Our human resource practices are guided that all our eligible employees get to by Vedanta's core value of Care and we utilize the convenience of the onsite child strive to create a supportive and inclusive care centres, HZL provides a fixed sum workplace that accommodates the various as child-care contribution for the stages of our employees' lives. We offer day-care of the child. flexible working hours to support new Breast-feeding/lactation facilities parents, recognizing the time and space they need to adjust to their new roles. As a ESL and HZL provide onsite result of the supportive environment, of breast-feeding/ lactation facilities in the women who had taken maternity leave child care centres where women can chose to continue in their roles even 12 freely breast feed their newborn in a months after rejoining work, reflecting the private, comfortable and hygienic support they received in childcare and the environment. At VZI, we provide lactation overall atmosphere of cooperation. room facilities to new mothers, as an enablement initiative, despite there being Diversity Indicator Our mentoring programme ‘Buddy’ system no regulatory requirement in South is a case in point. As a part of this, Africa. These lactation rooms can be experienced senior women colleagues who used upto a period of 12 months for an have passed through similar life individual infant, with the mother required experiences, provide guidance and support to bring her own equipment for availing of 20% 23% 14% to new mothers in making decisions related these facilities. At these subsidiaries, FY 2030 Target FY 2030 Target FY 2030 Target to their career and personal choices. daily nursing breaks are also provided 14% 21.30% 11.80% within the timeframe of a working day to Gender diversity Share of women in junior management Share of women in management positions in Several subsidiaries like ESL, VZI and HZL accommodate the new mothers’ (Fulltime employees) positions, i.e., first level of management revenue-generating functions (e.g. sales) as have launched empathetic programmes for breastfeeding needs. (as % of total junior management positions) % of all such managers (i.e. excluding support new mothers, empowering them to handle functions such as HR, IT, Legal, etc.) their responsibilities more easily. These Paid parental leaves initiatives are diverse in nature, and include Vedanta provides paid parental leaves for 18% 12% 13% provision of onsite day care facilities for both primary and secondary caregivers, FY 2030 Target FY 2030 Target FY 2030 Target young children, breast feeding / lactation 18.30% 9.20% 15.70% facilities, paid parental leaves, amongst with 26 weeks of paid leave provided to Share of women in all Share of women in top management Share of women in STEM-related positions others. female employees, 7 days to male management positions, positions, i.e. maximum two levels (as % of total STEM positions) employees. Additionally, keeping in mind including junior, middle away from the CEO or comparable the needs of those mothers who go in for and top management positions (as % of total top Day care centres (as % of total management management positions) adoption we also provide 12 weeks of positions) ESL and HZL are providing day care adoption leave to female employees who centres onsite where new mothers can have adopted a child. leave their infants and young children in Performance in FY 2023 95