Hays PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Nov 9, 2022

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Hays PLC

09 November 2022

HAYS PLC

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2022

RESULTS OF THE POLL

Hays plc (the "Company") announces the results of the voting by poll on the resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting ("AGM") held at 12:00pm today, Wednesday 9 November 2022. The full text of the resolutions proposed at the AGM is included in the Notice of AGM published on 3 October 2022, which is available on the Company's website at: www.haysplc.com/investors/shareholder-services/agm.

Resolutions 1 to 16 were passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 17 to 19 were passed as special resolutions.

The following table shows the votes cast on each resolution:

Resolution

Votes For

%

Votes Against

%

Votes Total

% of ISC Votes

Votes Witheld

1. To receive the Directors' and Auditor's Reports and the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2022

1,404,129,179

100.00

51,304

0.00

1,404,180,483

87.53%

5,265,084

2. To approve the

Directors' Remuneration

Report

1,359,585,839

97.90

29,178,638

2.10

1,388,764,477

86.57%

20,681,090

3. To declare a final dividend

1,409,378,672

100.00

55,246

0.00

1,409,433,918

87.86%

10,497

4. To declare a special dividend

1,409,366,280

100.00

67,638

0.00

1,409,433,918

87.86%

10,497

5. To elect James Hilton as a director of the Company

1,402,041,067

99.48

7,364,580

0.52

1,409,405,647

87.86%

38,768

6. To elect Joe Hurd as a director of the Company

1,402,652,850

99.52

6,725,779

0.48

1,409,378,629

87.86%

65,786

7. To re-elect Andrew Martin as a director of the Company

1,386,785,276

98.40

22,601,578

1.60

1,409,386,854

87.86%

57,561

8. To re-elect Alistair Cox as a director of the Company

1,403,173,870

99.56

6,240,267

0.44

1,409,414,137

87.86%

30,278

9. To re-elect Cheryl Millington as a director of the Company

1,350,257,218

95.81

59,120,415

4.19

1,409,377,633

87.86%

66,782

10. To re-elect Susan Murray as a director of the Company

1,348,359,368

95.75

59,898,808

4.25

1,408,258,176

87.79%

1,186,239

11. To re-elect MT Rainey as a director of the Company

1,349,092,072

95.80

59,198,301

4.20

1,408,290,373

87.79%

1,154,042

12. To re-elect Peter Williams as a director of the Company

1,392,075,026

98.77

17,304,407

1.23

1,409,379,433

87.86%

64,982

13 To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditor of the Company

1,405,605,144

99.73

3,814,756

0.27

1,409,419,900

87.86%

24,515

14. To authorise the directors to determine the Auditor's remuneration

1,409,357,539

100.00

62,142

0.00

1,409,419,681

87.86%

24,734

15. To authorise the Company to make political donations

1,399,629,804

99.31

9,787,418

0.69

1,409,417,222

87.86%

27,193

16. To authorise the directors to allot Ordinary shares in the Company

1,191,074,677

84.51

218,353,384

15.49

1,409,428,061

87.86%

16,354

17. To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights*

1,190,968,172

84.51

218,331,601

15.49

1,409,299,773

87.85%

144,642

18. To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares*

1,405,638,785

99.73

3,791,364

0.27

1,409,430,149

87.86%

14,266

19. To authorise the calling of a general meeting with 14 clear days' notice*

1,327,586,557

94.19

81,833,888

5.81

1,409,420,445

87.86%

23,970

Special resolutions are indicated by an asterisk.

The issued share capital (ISC) at the close of business on 07 November 2022 was 1,616,469,100 (1,604,182,300

excluding shares held in Treasury). The 'For' vote includes those giving the Chairman discretion. Votes withheld are not votes in law and therefore have not been counted in the calculation of the percentage of votes for or against a resolution.

The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available at www.haysplc.com/investors/shareholder-services/agm 

In accordance with UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R, copies of the resolutions, other than those concerning ordinary business, passed at the Annual General Meeting will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism

Hannah Shepherd

Deputy Company Secretary

9 November 2022

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