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Business report – Colas Group
ENCOURAGING VALUE FOR COMMITMENT
Empowerment and subsidiarity form the basis of Group organization.
Internal promotion is favored and Colas is a group where its
employees can still build entire careers, contrary to the current ethos
of the labor market where job insecurity prevails and switching companies
is necessary for promotion.
Nomades, the job mobility Intranet
Career paths are constantly open for employees seeking promotion.
Opportunities are chiefly posted on the Group’s “Nomades”
Intranet site. In the space of four years, almost 1,100 offers have
been placed on line.
Awards and motivation
Every year Colas distinguishes the talent and high quality work of
its best professional skilled workers by honoring them with an award
– the Compagnons de la Route – to emphasize the value of their
example. The award is made to team members who have achieved
an outstanding level of technical expertise during the year. 90 new
Compagnons de la Route were awarded in November 2005.
The Order of Compagnons de la Route
In France in 1993, the Colas Group instituted the Order of
Compagnons de la Route to single out its best team members
who have distinguished themselves by their commitment to the
company, their technical ability and the example they set. Since
the creation of the Order, over 800 employees who have been
proposed by their profit center managers have received the distinction
and benefited from a specific training program in business,
communication and safety.
Seeking to foster the professional career development of young
employees, Colas supports industry initiatives that aim at improving
the image of the road construction business.
The WorldSkills Competition
During the finals of the 38th WorldSkills Competition, which took
place in January 2005 in Nantes in western France, Colas Group
employees all aged under 22 were able to apply their technical
expertise in the context of a competition with other young professionals.
Colas has been active in obtaining recognition of the road
industry professions by the WorldSkills organizing committee. Two
gold medals in the main services and pipeworks categories were
awarded to young skilled workers from the Colas Rhône-Alpes
and Colas Centre-Ouest profit centers.
People and pay
At the start of an employee’s career, on entering the Group, salary is
established on the basis of a scale that takes account of the newlyhired
employee’s level of professional training and type of education.
Subsequent raises are then based on attaining personalized
goals and levels of responsibility. Growth of the Group and the financial
results achieved in 2005 have made it possible to implement a
dynamic remuneration system, which includes a portion of salary
that varies according to company profits. The notion of “global salary”
includes health and pension plans that have been considerably
improved over the last few years, profit sharing agreements and the
Company Saving Plan, which, in France, allows employees’ voluntary
contributions to be matched by the employer.