Maintaining and supporting jobs despite Covid-19 As an operator of essential services, SUEZ has had two goals during the Covid-19 crisis: protecting its employees and ensuring the continuity of public water and waste services. SUEZ has looked ahead continuously and taken steps to protect its employees, such as setting up a task force to ensure mask supplies at the beginning of the crisis, deploying home working on a huge scale, exempting vulnerable employees from work, setting up a psychological support hotline etc.

In terms of financial support measures, the Group decided to supplement state provisions to ensure employees working short-time hours still received 100% of their salaries and to pay additional bonuses to the most financially vulnerable in June and December 2020. In countries without short-time working, salary maintenance measures were introduced.

Throughout the world, our employees generate and benefit from the Group s performance - At a time when the pandemic is reinforcing social utility and inclusion as two key concerns of society, the commitment of the Group s employees testifies to the essential character of its activities. Throughout the year, SUEZ has striven to be worthy of this commitment.

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