Unified Metrics Library - Discrimination incidents sanctioned

Helper question

How many incidents of discrimination in the workplace leading to sanctions were reported, during the period?

Summary

When disclosing the number of sanctioned incidents related to discrimination in the workplace, sanctions refer to financial sanctions. It covers only the sanctions applied against entities causing the impacts.

Unit

Incident(s)

Description

An "incident" refers to a legal action or complaint registered with the undertaking or competent authorities through a formal process or an instance of non-compliance identified by the undertaking through established procedures. With the number of incidents of discrimination leading to sanctions, the responsible entity should consider financial sanctions such as administrative monetary penalties (or fines).

Regulatory Definition

According to the (EU) 2022/1288 of 6 April 2022, the metric is defined as "Number of incidents of discrimination leading to sanctions in investee companies, expressed as a weighted average".

Sources

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/1288 of 6 April 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the details of the content and presentation of the information in relation to the principle of do no significant harm . ANNEX I (Table 3, Additional indicators for social and employee, respect for human rights, anti-corruption and anti-bribery matters, Social and employee matters, Indicator 7, Point 2)

Examples

Among the reported discrimination cases, the indicator asks for the organization to disclose which of those incidents are formally and legally sanctioned.

Discrimination incidents

Employee turnover rate