Sidenor 2022 Sustainability Report

79 In the area of equality, our corporate policies enable us to provide all people with the same opportunities and exclude all types of discrimination based on gender, race or religion. In this regard, the well-being of our staff is also a priority for us, and we promote effective conciliation so that everybody, regardless of gender, might reach a real balance between work and private life. In this sense, we launched a first Equality Plan in 2018, which shall last for five years and whose adaptation and update according to Royal Decrees 901/2020 and 902/2020 was agreed on with social representatives in October 2022. In addition, we devote each year significant resources to the training of our professionals and provide them with tools such as career plans and continuous training, so that they may develop to their full potential and continue growing hand in hand with Sidenor. We also implement succession plans so that senior professionals might pass on their knowledge and experience to young hires. Thanks to these measures, we have become one of the ten companies with the best corporate reputation in the Basque Country – an achievement we are proud of, but want to further improve in the future. Sidenor maintains channels of communication and dialogue with its employees, directly as well as through its union representatives in the corresponding bargaining commissions, in order to deal with topics of interest and reach agreements on this matter. The main communication channels are notice boards, information panels, newsletters, the Intranet, face-to-face meetings, events and the complaint channel. Sidenor staff in figures* 2022 2021 Nº % Nº % Spain 1,829 100% 1,802 100% Permanent contracts 1,546 85% 1,411 78% Temporary contracts 283 15% 391 22% Women 172 9% 163 9% Men 1,657 91% 1,639 91% Full-time contracts completa 1,698 93% 1,723 96% Part-time contracts 131 7% 79 4% Age category below 30 years 107 6% 84 5% Women 17 19 Men 90 65 Age category between 30 and 50 years 1,174 64% 1,200 66% Women 122 113 Men 1,052 1,087 Age category above 50 years 548 30% 518 29% Women 33 31 Men 515 487 * Employment at Sidenor at the end of 2022 and 2021