GN is committed to ensuring that human rights are safeguarded and that we manage our material sustainability matters related to value chain workers. Our human rights policy commitments cover all value chain workers across all geographies in which we operate to enable identification, assessment, and management, or remediation of our material IROs. GN is committed to the UN’s principles of responsible business, having been a signatory of the UN Global Compact since 2010. Over the last reporting period, we have observed no cases of non-respect to these principles involving value chain workers in our upstream or downstream value chain. To address our human rights policy commitments, GN has introduced a number of initiatives and due diligence processes to ensure we are able to engage with value chain workers or their proxies and representatives to take measures enabling remedy of our negative impacts. Furthermore, we strive to set policy commitments that inform GN’s overall strategy and work in this area, ensuring we take into account the interests, views, and rights of workers in the value chain.

GN addresses relevant concerns and grievances because of impacts on workers in their value chain. They continuously improve ways of working to identify situations where actions may have caused or contributed to a negative impact and how to support affected workers with suitable remediation. GN outlines expectations about grievance mechanisms being available to all workers in the value chain as part of their Supplier Code of Conduct. Their due diligence approach seeks to achieve that suppliers' processes relating to grievance and any limitations in their ability to effectively identify cases where workers are impacted negatively are addressed. GN cooperates with suppliers on other human rights issues to improve their work with instituting effective remedies. GN's whistleblower hotline is available to all employees, external parties, and value chain workers, ensuring confidentiality and addressing concerns in a fair manner.