66 The Hershey Company | 2021 ESG Report The Big Picture Our Company Cocoa Responsible Sourcing and Human Rights Environment Our People Youth Community About This Report Our People Engaging With Unions The Black Heritage BRG hosted the July The employees at our manufacturing facilities Minority Mental Health Month event, focusing who craft our world-class products enjoy on removing the stigma of mental health. competitive wages, benefits and highly skilled “Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine; Acknowledging jobs and report strong engagement with their and Healing Our Past, Looking Forward To The work. At some facilities, our manufacturing Future,“ presented by Malkia Newman, Team employees are represented by labor Supervisor at CNS Healthcare, was a featured organizations and operate under collective session. Hershey also provided Exercise bargaining agreements. Our labor relations are Your Wellness with personal trainer Bodine conducted in the spirit of collaboration for the Wolchuk sharing how to move your body benefit of employees and the company. In 2021, through dynamic exercises to increase strength, approximately 33% of our employees worldwide stretching techniques to enhance flexibility and were covered by collective bargaining breathing techniques to decrease heart rate agreements. and blood pressure, helping to manage stress and increase focus. A Place to Learn and Grow For leaders, we provided two webinars on Recognizing The Distressed Employee, which Hershey gives all employees the chance to shared how to recognize the role of stress, learn, grow and own their work. Since 2017, we the warning signs, strategies for assisting have partnered with leading online content employees and resources to support leaders experts and increased internal learning and employees. development to expand our catalog of online and classroom courses from 3,000 to more than 20,000. This unique combination of world-class resources, genuine responsibility and authentic experience makes Hershey a place where employees can become leaders in their fields. The majority of our eight executive officers were promoted from within the organization. In 2021, Hershey showed care and concern for 20,000+ employees’ and leaders’ well-being by hosting online and classroom a monthly virtual well-being webinar series. courses available to Hershey The series focused on emotional, mental and physical health habits and offered supporting employees resources. We leveraged our Business Resource Groups (BRGs) to host 22 webinars and shared the series with the 3,300 BRG members.