2007 Reference document (PDF) - Valeo

3. Equality between men and women in the workplace
3.1. Male-female breakdown
Valeo places great importance on equality between men and
women in the workplace, in terms of career development, training
possibilities, salaries and rank within the company.
Valeo draws up a comparative male-female status report for the
Group’s French companies every year. This report is used as a basis
for annual negotiations between labor and management on targets
Breakdown of women by socio-professional category
Management Report
Social indicators
for equality in the workplace and on the measures required to
achieve these targets.
The sale of the Wiring Harness business, which employed a high
proportion of women, especially among operators, drove down
the percentage of women in the Group, to 30.7% at end-2007,
compared with 37.2% in 2006 and 36.6% in 2005.
2005 2006 * 2007 **
Engineers and managers 17.1% 17.1% 17.4%
Administrative staff, technicians and supervisors 28.3% 26.5% 26.3%
Operators 44.4% 46.0% 39.2%
* Excluding Motors & Actuators (with the exception of its Chinese division).
** Excluding Wiring Harness (with the exception of the Porriño plant in Spain).
Through partnerships with leading French business schools and
associations such as Elles Bougent, which promotes careers in
engineering for women, Valeo is striving to increase the percentage
of women it employs. As the table below shows, the percentage of
Percentage of women hired under permanent contracts over three years
women hired under permanent contracts in all socio-professional
categories has been increasing over recent years, gaining nine
percentage points between 2005 and 2007.
Engineers and managers
Administrative staff,
technicians and supervisors Operators Total
Women % Women % Women % Women %
2005 369 20.8% 157 20.7% 1,470 36.5% 1,996 30.4%
2006* 414 21.9% 184 21.7% 2,268 40.6% 2,866 34.4%
2007** 337 27.9% 146 30.1% 2,298 42.9% 2,781 39.4%
* Including Motors & Actuators.
** Excluding Wiring Harness (with the exception of the Porriño plant in Spain).
3.2. Diversity
The Valeo Group has sites in 28 countries and is thus highly
diversified.
In 2007, the Group’s workforce comprised employees of
93 nationalities.
The ten most prevalent nationalities within our Divisions are French,
German, Chinese, Spanish, Mexican, Italian, Portuguese, Moroccan,
Brazilian, and Polish.
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The countries where Valeo has the largest number of nationalities
are: France (62 nationalities), Germany (38), the United States (29),
the Czech Republic (28), and Italy (20).
The two most diversified Divisions are the Valeo Interior Controls
Product Family in Germany, with 23 nationalities across a workforce
of 1,613 employees, and the Valeo Wiper Systems Product
Family in Germany, with 23 nationalities across a workforce of
1,456 employees.
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