2007 Reference document (PDF) - Valeo

2 Management
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Social indicators
In France, the agreement on the reduction in working time, signed with trade unions on April 20, 2000, sets the applicable working time
as follows:
Engineers and managers 215 days per year
Administrative staff, technicians and supervisors 35 h
Employees without paid overtime hours 37 h 30
Operators 35 h
Part-time employees
As part-time work is defined as any work schedule with fewer working hours than the standard schedule for the entity in question, the average
working time for part-time employees varies from 16 to 36 hours per week, depending on country and socio-professional category.
2.2. Shift patterns
Employee breakdown by shift patterns in %
2007 Reference document - VALEO
2005 2006 * 2007 **
Day workers 45% 43% 44%
Two 8-hour shifts 27% 30% 24%
Three 8-hour shifts 21% 20% 24%
Night workers 5% 5% 6%
Weekend workers 2% 2% 2%
* Excluding Motors & Actuators (with the exception of its Chinese division).
** Excluding Wiring Harness (with the exception of the Porriño plant in Spain).
Most production employees work two or three shifts or nights in
order to optimize plant utilization. In 2007, there were 30,691 shift
workers, representing 55.9% of total headcount.
2.3. Overtime
In 2007, 5,596,662 hours of overtime were paid (as compared
with 6,554,338 in 2006 and 7,248,369 in 2005), 84% of which to
production employees (81% in 2006 and 79% in 2005).
This paid overtime corresponds to 5% of the Group’s possible number
of working hours (i.e. the maximum number of hours that could
possibly be worked by all Group employees).
2.4. Part-time work
In 2007, 1,362 of the Group’s employees worked part-time,
representing 2.5% of the permanent workforce (1.9% in both 2006
and 2005).
Women accounted for 73.8% of the Group’s part-time workers
(75.2% in 2006).
Part-time numbers break down as follows: engineers and managers
8.4%; administrative staff, technicians and supervisors 16.5%; and
operators 75.1%.
In certain countries the percentage of part-time employees was
much higher than the Group average. This was particularly the case
in Germany (12.2%), Belgium (11.7%), Ireland (10.8%), Spain
(5%), Italy (3.3%), and Egypt (2.7%). In France part-time employees
represented 2.4% of the workforce.
2.5. Absenteeism
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Absenteeism, expressed as the number of hours absent over
the possible number of working hours, fell once again in 2007,
to 2.65%, down 0.05 points on 2006 and 0.15 points on 2005.
Absenteeism recorded during the year was due to sickness (82.1%),
unauthorized absences (5.5%), authorized absences such as unpaid
leave (4.2%), accidents at the workplace or in journeys between
the office and home (4.0%), strikes (1.5%), suspensions (0.4%)
and other reasons (2.3%).
The sustained reduction in absenteeism rates, from 2.9% in 2004
and 3.4% in 2003, was achieved through action plans implemented
across the Group.
France comes halfway in the absenteeism ranking with a rate of 2.8%,
up 0.1 points on 2006.
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