Latest update on November 14, 2023
In a nutshell:
- ESRS S1 to S4 outline the requirements for companies to report on social aspects
- Main topics covered are own workforce (S1), workers in the value chain (S2), affected communities (S3) and consumers and end-users (S4)
- The specific topics from ESRS S1 to S4 to be reported on result from your double materiality assessment
The four Social Standards involve the topics of the own workforce, workers in the value chain, affected communities and consumers and end-users. ESRS S1 to S4 provide the disclosures for companies to report on human-centric topics linked to a 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 internal and external operations.
The official Information on the Social ESRS can be found on pages from the European Commission's first set of standards publication. Similar to the disclosure requirements for the Environmental Standards, all four Social Standard disclosure requirements can be broken down and described by the four reporting areas from ESRS 2: (1) governance, (2) strategy, (3) impact, (4) risk and opportunity management, and metrics and targets. Your initial double materiality analysis provides the basis for the range of topics from ESRS S1 to S4 to be reported on.
Further details on each ESRS聽S1-S4 can be found in the next part. It describes each Sub-topic and Sub-sub-topics, as well as the Objectives.
ESRS S1: Own Workforce聽
Sub-topics of S1
- Working conditions
- Equal treatments and opportunities for all聽
- Other work-related rights
Sub-sub-topics of S1 - Working conditions
- Secure employment
- Working time
- Adequate wages聽
- Social dialogue聽聽
- Freedom of association, the existence of works councils and the information, consultation and participation rights of workers聽聽
- Collective bargaining, including rate of workers covered by collective agreements聽聽
- Work-life balance聽聽
- Health and safety
Sub-sub-topics of S1 - Equal treatments and opportunities for all
- Gender equality and equal pay for work of equal value聽聽
- Training and skills development聽聽
- Employment and inclusion of persons with disabilities聽聽
- Measures against violence and harassment in the workplace聽聽
- Diversity
Sub-sub-topics of S1 - Other work-related rights
- Child labour聽聽
- Forced labor聽聽
- Adequate housing聽聽
- Privacy
Objectives of S1
The objectives of ESRS S1 are to understand:
- How your company is affecting your own workforce, considering material positive and negative impacts as well as potential impacts
- Which actions can be taken to prevent or mitigate negative impacts聽
- Your 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 material risks and opportunities related to its impacts and dependencies on its own workforce, and how your company manages risks and opportunities
- The risks and opportunities arising from the impact and financial materiality related to your 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 own workforce over the short-, medium-, and long-term
ESRS S2: Workers in the Value Chain聽
Sub-topics of S2
- Working conditions
- Equal treatment and opportunities for all
- Other work-related rights
Sub-sub-topics of S2 - Working conditions
- Secure employment
- Working time
- Adequate wages聽
- Social dialogue聽聽
- Freedom of association, the existence of works councils
- Collective bargaining
- Work-life balance聽聽
- Health and safety
Sub-sub-topics S2 - Equal treatments and opportunities for all
- Gender equality and equal pay for work of equal value聽聽
- Training and skills development聽聽
- Employment and inclusion of persons with disabilities聽聽
- Measures against violence and harassment in the workplace聽聽
- Diversity
Sub-sub-topics of S2 - Other work-related rights
- Child labour聽聽
- Forced labor聽聽
- Adequate housing聽聽
- Water and sanitation
- Privacy
Objectives of S2
The objectives of ESRS S2 are to understand:
- Your 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 material impacts (positive and negative, actual or potential) on workers in your value chain
- How your 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 actions can prevent, mitigate, or remediate negative impacts
- How your company manages the type and extent of risks and opportunities related to the impacts and dependencies on workers in the value chain
- The risks and opportunities from impact and financial materiality related to your 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 value chain workers over the short-, medium-, and long-term
ESRS S2 aims at developing an understanding of the material impacts, risks and opportunities with regard to workers that are connected with a 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 operations and value chain, for example, through products or services or business relationships.
ESRS S3: Affected Communities
Sub-topics S3
- Communities鈥 economic, social and cultural rights
- Communities鈥 civil and political rights
- Rights of indigenous peoples
Sub-sub-topics of S3 - Communities鈥 economic, social and cultural rights
- Adequate housing聽聽
- Adequate food聽聽
- Water and sanitation聽聽
- Land-related impacts聽聽
- Security-related impacts
Sub-sub-topics of S3 - Communities鈥 civil and political rights聽
- Freedom of expression聽聽
- Freedom of assembly聽聽
- Impacts on human rights defenders
Sub-sub-topics of S3 - Rights of indigenous peoples
- Free, prior and informed consent聽聽
- 厂别濒蹿-诲别迟别谤尘颈苍补迟颈辞苍听听
- Cultural rights
Objectives of S3
The objectives of ESRS S3 are to understand:
- How your company is affecting communities where the impacts are most likely and severe, considering material positive and negative impacts as well as potential impacts
- The actions and their results to prevent or mitigate negative impacts聽
- How your company manages the risks and opportunities arising from the impacts on affected communities
- The impact and financial materiality related to affected communities with respect to the short-, medium-, and long-term view
ESRS S3 refers to affected communities that are associated with a 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 own operations or its value chain, also through products or services and business relationships.
ESRS S4: Consumers and End-Users
Sub-topics of S4
- Information-related impacts for consumers and/or end-users
- Personal safety of consumers and/or end-users
- Social inclusion of consumers and/or end-users
Sub-sub-topics of S4 - Information-related impacts for consumers and/or end-user
- 笔谤颈惫补肠测听听
- Freedom of expression聽
- Access to (quality) information
Sub-sub-topics of S4 - Personal safety of consumers and/or end-users
- Health and safety聽聽
- Security of a person聽聽
- Protection of children
Sub-sub-topics of S4 - Social inclusion of consumers and/or end-users
- 狈辞苍-诲颈蝉肠谤颈尘颈苍补迟颈辞苍听听
- Access to products and services聽聽
- Responsible marketing practices
Objectives of S4
The objectives of ESRS S4 are to understand:
- The material impacts (positive and negative, actual or potential) of your 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 products and/or services on consumers and end-users
- Your 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 actions to prevent and mitigate negative impacts
- How your company manages the type and extent of risks and opportunities related to the impacts and dependencies on consumers and end-users
- The impact and financial materiality related to consumers and end-users of your 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 services and end-users聽
The perspective of ESRS S4 includes consumers and end-users connected with a 肠辞尘辫补苍测鈥檚 own operations as well as its value chain, including through products or services or business relationships.
鈥
Check out the following articles for more details on the other ESRS: