Human Capital FirstEnergy focuses on a number of human capital resources, measures and objectives in managing its business, including: integrity, safety, diversity, equity and inclusion, workplace flexibility, employee development and compensation and benefits. During 2022, the company continued to enhance its dedicated focus on employees by providing employees with additional opportunities to improve belonging, inclusion and engagement within our workforce. Collectively, these focus areas may be material to understanding its business under certain circumstances. Employees and Collective Bargaining Agreements As of December 31, 2022, FirstEnergy had 12,335 employees, all of whom were located in the United States as follows: Total Employees Bargaining Unit Employees FESC 5,099 554 CEI 824 565 JCP&L 1,361 1,052 ME 579 452 MP 1,080 750 OE 1,069 735 PE 501 330 Penn 173 131 PN 694 487 TE 331 253 WP 624 465 Total 12,335 5,774 As of December 31, 2022, the IBEW, the UWUA and the OPEIU unions collectively represented approximately half of FirstEnergy’s employees. There are 15 collective bargaining agreements between FirstEnergy’s subsidiaries and its unions, which have three, four or five- year terms. In 2022, FirstEnergy’s subsidiaries reached new agreements with 3 IBEW locals, covering 620 employees, and 3 UWUA locals, covering 945 employees. Safety Safety is a core value of FirstEnergy. FirstEnergy employees have the power and responsibility to keep each other safe and eliminate life-changing events, which are injuries that have life-changing impacts or fatal results. Safety metrics, such as injuries that result in days away or restricted time and life-changing events, are regularly monitored, internally reported, and are included in our annual incentive compensation program to reinforce that a safe work environment is crucial to FirstEnergy’s success. FirstEnergy has shifted its focus from achieving low OSHA rates to proactively identifying and mitigating life-changing event exposure. This shift in focus strengthens FirstEnergy’s safety-first culture by aligning our leadership around the same goal and driving safer decisions from an engaged workforce who puts safety first. FirstEnergy continues to embed its "Leading with Safety" learnings and experiences and continues to enhance and reinforce leader and employee safety training and exposure control concepts to improve job site exposure identification, communication and mitigation to prevent life changing events. Further, FirstEnergy continues to expand its “Leading with Safety” experiences with its employees to achieve excellence in personal, contractor and public safety. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion DEI is a core value, as well as a corporate objective because a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment delivers better service to customers, strong operational performance, innovation, and a safe, rewarding work experience for employees. FirstEnergy is focused on building a diverse workforce for the future, advancing a culture of equity, inclusion and belonging, and enhancing our diversity focus with our customers, in our communities and with our suppliers. Affirmative steps taken at FirstEnergy to promote the core value of diversity, equity and inclusion include: • FirstEnergy sponsors an executive diversity, equity and inclusion council consisting of senior management and other leaders across the company; • Recently developed FirstEnergy Utilities Operations DEI Council focused on DEI related strategy and initiatives specific to operations employees including a large represented physical work group; • Holding an annual “Employee Engagement Survey” to capture employees’ perspectives on their work experience and progress toward embracing a more inclusive culture. The survey results are discussed with employees in order to drive initiatives and action plans for improvement. This includes establishing: 6
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