Liontrust Sustainable Investment Annual Review 2023 - Flipbook - Page 16
Ensuring worker wellbeing
While there has been recent progress made in workforce-related
reporting, there remains a lack of meaningful data around
corporate workforce and supply chain practices. As a signatory
to the Workforce Disclosure Initiative (WDI), which currently has
the support of 56 investor signatories managing over $9.5 trillion
in assets, we are engaging with companies to improve corporate
transparency and accountability on workforce-related issues.
cited as a leading contributor to the initiative, coming second out
of the 20 active investors in terms of the number of companies it
engaged with.
We also engaged with a number of companies on worker
wellbeing and equality and diversity, including Markel, Nagarro
and Trainline. We made 100 requests for change on worker
wellbeing, of which 43% were either committed to or actioned.
Over 2023, the team requested 98 companies to participate in
the WDI. Of these, 42 (43%) participated. The team has been
We engaged with
98
companies
Our team made
100
specific requests for change
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43%
participated in
the WDI survey