By signing the UN initiative, Lidl is setting a mark for gender equality in practice
Advocating gender equality is firmly enshrined in our company culture. To publicly underline this engagement, Lidl has signed the United Nations’ Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs).
- We aim to further increase the proportion of female executives at middle and senior management level.
- We work with standardised salary structures based on objective criteria such as professional experience, qualifications and skills.
- We demand and promote policies for equal opportunities also from our partners along the value chain.
Equal opportunities for all – We’re already well on our way
Lidl Cypus is actively promoting gender equality in our own company and along the value chain. We’re convinced: Equal opportunities and diversity are core components of long-term corporate success. Which is why we have enshrined it in our corporate principles and code of conduct.
In practice, this means:
- Increasing the proportion of women in executive positions: Our goal is to bring more women into leadership roles at middle and senior management level. This presents the particular challenge of creating a positive life balance, both for women and men: Here, Lidl takes proactive steps to ensure that all employees are informed about organisational solutions regarding pregnancy, maternity and parental leave.
- Equal career opportunities for all employees: Our standardised salary structures are based on objective criteria such as professional experience, qualifications and skills. In addition, we offer all employees equal access to training and development opportunities.
- Persons of trust for all employees: Independent and impartial contact persons have been designated. Employees can approach them both about general staff issues as well as complaints relating to diversity and gender equality issues.
- Equal opportunities in our supply chains: As part of our corporate responsibility, we also promote the principles of gender equality and equal opportunities from our supply chains: When it comes to our global partners, we expect and encourage equal opportunities and provide information about this in our extended position paper on corporate due diligence.
The United Nations’ Women’s Empowerment Principles
