Disclosures on Labour Practices and Decent Work

This table provides an overview of our reporting against GRI G3 requirements for labour practices and decent work.

Level of disclosure

For each of these elements we state whether Unilever's reporting covers the requirements fully (F) or partially (P). Here we provide links or signposts to where this information can be found either in our online Sustainable Development Report (SDR) 2008 or in our Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) 2008.

Where core indicators are not deemed as material to our business for this year, we have marked this as NM (not material). Where we currently do not have information in our public reporting to answer a requirement we mark this as NA (not available). We will continue to review the availability of information in our reporting at Group level to meet stakeholder interests on our most important impacts.

Key

F = Full coverage
P = Partial coverage
NA = Not available
NM = Not material

Management approach

Find out more about our management approach:

GRI G3 requirements

Level of reporting

Comment / Links

Employment

LA1 Total workforce by employment type, employment contract and region (core)

P

SDR: Our business and impacts

SDR: Employees

ARA: About Unilever, Our employees

LA2 Total number and rate of employee turnover broken down by age, gender and region (core)

P

SDR: Employees

SDR: Restructuring

Labour / management relations

LA4 Percentage of employees covered by collective bargaining agreements (core)

NA

LA5 Minimum notice period(s) regarding operational changes, including whether it is specified in collective agreements (core)

NA

Occupational health & safety

LA7 Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days and absenteeism and number of work related fatalities by region (core)

P

SDR: Employees

SDR: Health, safety & well-being

LA8 Education, training, counselling, prevention and risk-control programmes in place to assist workforce members, their families or community members regarding serious diseases (core)

F

SDR: Employees, HIV/AIDS

Training & education

LA10 Average hours of training per year per employee by employee category (core)

NA

LA11 Programmes for skills management and lifelong learning that support the continued employability of employees and assist them in managing career endings (additional)

P

SDR: Employees

Diversity & equal opportunity

LA13 Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees per category according to gender, age group, minority group membership and other indicators of diversity (core)

P

SDR: Our business and impacts

SDR: Employees

ARA: Vitality through our people

LA14 Ratio of average remuneration of men and women broken down by employee category (core)

NA