The male/female ratio at Tata Steel is 95:5. The female employees pre-dominantly represent worker class and a few in the Officers cadre. Presently there are no women in board of directors or among top ten executives of the company.

The company also employs bisexual (eunuch) candidates in its workforce.

HR1 ENSURING HUMAN RIGHTS

Respect of individual is one of the core values/ beliefs of Tata Steel as indicated in Tata Code of Conduct (Annexure-II). Any violation to this effect is dealt with the established disciplinary procedure enumerated in our Works’ Standing Orders 1970.

Tata Steel ensures protection of fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution of India. There is an employee grievance redressal cell in Human Resource Management Department, which reviews and addresses the grievances. There was no recorded case during the reporting year on any violation of human rights. The detailed grievance redressal procedure is furnished in Annexure-IV.

HR2/HR3 ENSURING HUMAN RIGHTS BY OUR SUPPLIERS AND CONTRACTORS

Performance of Supplier & Procedure for Monitoring:

Procurement Division of Tata Steel has deployed “bench mark” processes before introduction of any new vendor in the panel of suppliers. This follows a matured SERT (Search/Evaluate/ Register/Trial) Methodology for introduction. Report is also being taken from Head, Vigilance about the credentials of the vendors before formally registering. Only after receipt of confidential reports, and if found satisfactory, the vendors are registered.

In order to sustain the relationship with vendors under Tata Business Excellence model framework mechanism, the following actions related to human rights have been taken:

Procurement Division has also created “single window” Call Centres to address concerns/grievances related to payment/changes like e Initiatives etc. for all suppliers. These three “Call Centres” are India’s Fully IT enabled set ups under SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) concept addresses all concerns related to vendors and are highly sought after by them. Close monitoring on the compliance with labour laws with regard to vendor’s social performance is done and defaulters are strictly penalized as per the norms laid out.

Ethics Counsellor & Procurement Division closely monitor adherence to Tata Steel Code of Conduct guidelines by suppliers. Defaulters are penalized as per the norms laid out. At Vendor Meets, top management also recognizes suppliers who “show exemplary” ethical behaviour with Tata Steel. For the FIRST time, suppliers on the Internet at the E Procurement site have implemented an IT based system.

HR8 EMPLOYEES TRAINING ON RELEVANT ASPECTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

“Happy and enthused employees” is one of the most important pillars of VISION 2007 of Tata Steel which also requires the company to become EVA positive and to improve the quality of life of the employees and the communities we serve. All employees have been trained on objectives of VISION 2007. The details of the training imparted to the employees are furnished in LA16 & LA17 also. Human rights issues are covered under the training on Code of Conduct for the employees.