Global Reporting Standards

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards help reporting organizations understand and communicate the impact of their business on critical sustainability issues. GRI Standards can be used to report on social impact related to gender measurements using the following standards:

GRI 401: Employment 2016:This Standard sets out reporting requirements on the topic of employment and it highlights hiring, recruitment, retention, and working conditions both within the company and throughout the supply chain. To learn more, click here.

• GRI 401-1 provides a company with information about its efforts and results when implementing inclusive recruitment practices – not only gender (i.e. new hires and turnover)
• GRI 401-3 deals with parental leave policies (e.g. number of employees that took parental leave – by gender, number of employees that returned to work after parental leave)

GRI 405: Diversity and Equal Opportunity 2016: This Standard addresses the company’s approach to diversity and equal opportunity at work and it highlights management approach to the topic, diversity of governance bodies and employees, and ration of basic salary and remuneration of women to men. To learn more, click here.

GRI 404: Training and Education 2016: This Standard provides insight into the scale of an organization’s investment in training, and the degree to which the investment is made across the entire employee base. To learn more, click here.