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6 - Training
Breakdown of training expenses by region and type, as a percentage of zone payroll costs.
Training Management General Core
budget training training know-how
training
Europe** 4.66% 7.66% 11.96% 80.38%
North America 3.34% 5.00% 2.00% 93.00%
South America* 3.83% 8.50% 27.50% 64.00%
Asia 3.93% 13.87% 35.55% 50.58%
** Excluding Euromaster and Pneu Laurent
* Excluding plantations
As in 2003, the Group’s training effort was focused on core
know-how, in line with its policy of promoting the acquisition of
skill.
7 - Disabled workers
In most countries, companies are required by law to fill a
statutory percentage of jobs with disabled staff. Where this
percentage is not reached, companies are required to make
a financial contribution. As a matter of principle, Michelin Group
promotes employment of disabled people and to this end, adopts
a mix of solutions: employment of disabled workers (for example
1.5% in Brazil, 2% in the United States of America, around 3%
in the UK and 6.1% in France), recourse to subcontractors
mainly staffed with disabled persons (for example in Spain
and Poland) and financial contributions to ad-hoc statutory institutions,
as in Hungary.
8 - Corporate citizenship
In most countries where it operates, Michelin Group makes
financial contributions to a number of associations in the field of
sports, vocational training, culture and charity. Each year, the
Group spends some €25 million on local community events and
charity.
In Europe, Group contributions to local life vary from country to
country and are in general substantial as well as sustained. A
€300,000 contribution was made to the Spanish Red Cross after
the attacks on Madrid on March 11, 2004.
In North America, Michelin contributes to associations and local
communities in the form of financial contributions and volunteer
work. Upwards of US $1 million are earmarked every year for
this purpose, in such areas as social training, environmental,
safety and living environment programs.
In Nigeria, Michelin plays an active role at local level including
maintenance of medical equipment, power and water supply,
contribution to the running costs of schools and sports clubs and
the handicapped children’s hospitals for an overall yearly amount
of some €500,000.
In Asia, Michelin made a US $2 million donation to victims of the
tidal wave in December 2004.
9 - The vital role of sub-contracting
In 2004, third-party services, cleaning of facilities, machinery and
working outfits, security, handling and storage, waste elimination,
IT and telecom operations and administrative services)
amounted to the equivalent of 4.1% of payroll.
10 - Michelin European Development:
an actor of regional development and
job creation
Michelin Development, the Group’s job search program, is active
at local level in every region where the Group operates.
In 2004, Michelin Development set up agencies in France (Société
d’Industrialisation et de Développement Economique – SIDE),
Spain, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Russia, Poland and
Hungary, and one is being set up in Roumania. With twenty
dedicated staff and an overall budget of €8 million, in 2004,
Michelin Development supported projects with a job creation
potential of a thousand or so jobs in the mid-term.
11 - Community relations, vocational
training, associations
In 2004, a series of guidelines on the nature and importance
of its involvement in the life of neighbouring communities were
circulated in Michelin sites worldwide. The three priority areas
are as follows:
• improve mobility (through public awareness campaigns on road
safety for children and teenagers such as “Junior bike” in
Europe);