The targets have been set directly relating to value chain workers, such as aiming to reduce negative or advancing positive impacts, or to manage our material risks and opportunities. We have defined a process for setting targets relating to human rights due diligence, but we have not engaged directly with value chain workers, their legitimate representatives, or credible proxies, in setting them, nor in tracking the performance, or in identifying lessons or improvement as a result of our performance. Moving into 2025, we also plan to undertake a comprehensive review of these policy areas to understand any applicable targets that can be set in relation to workers in the value chain. GN’s overall ambition in this sphere reflects our drive to strengthen our due diligence processes and efforts in tracking effectiveness to monitor our progress connected to impacts on value chain workers.

GN conducted 46 supplier audits across China and Southeast Asia in 2024, where major human rights-related findings were connected to occupational health and safety, excessive overtime hours, overuse of dispatched workers, and inadequate parental leave. All major findings have either been resolved or are subject to mandatory corrective action. Through these processes, there have been no major findings related to severe human rights issues and incidents, such as forced or child labor.