2007 Interactive Registration Document - Renault

03 EMPLOYEE-RELATIONS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
PERFORMANCE
3.1.3.2 DIVERSITY ✦
Refl ecting the same approach, Renault signed the Diversity Charter on November
30, 2004 in France. The aim is to encourage pluralism and diversity through
recruitment and career management. Around forty other companies have also
signed this Charter.
Renault is keen for the company to take advantage of the cultural wealth and
diverse experience of all components of society.
WOMEN AT RENAULT
Renault’s commitment to promoting diversity concerns the place of women in the
company, in particular. Despite the automotive industry being a predominantly
male world by tradition, and despite the fact that women are under-represented
in the schools attended by students wishing to work in this sector, Renault
includes one-third of women in the white collar workers recruited annually.
Three women sit on Renault’s Management Committee.
Renault s.a.s. has signed an agreement to establish professional equality
between male and female employees and to encourage a balance between
employees’ working lives and private lives. The agreement includes measures
to establish gender equality, such as the analysis of the recruitment of women,
cooperation with the educational authorities in an effort to make automotive
industry professions more attractive to women, the creation of commissions for
gender equality in the Works Councils, and measures relating to maternity or
parental leave (interview with the management, training, access to information,
equal treatment guaranteed during maternity leave). Plans are also under way to
provide practical and fi nancial improvements and to organize childcare facilities
in an effort to better reconcile employees’ professional and private lives.
In October 2007, Renault partnered the Women’s Forum in Deauville (France) for
the second year running. As a partner in the program “Women for Education”,
Renault also supports the emancipation of women worldwide, through easier
access to education, vocational training and business creation.
DISABLED PEOPLE
Renault s.a.s. has renewed its agreement concerning disabled staff for the
fourth consecutive time and for a period of three years (2006-2008). For more
information, refer to c hapter 3.3.5 on Renault’s “Contribution to civil society”.
In 2007 Renault pursued initiatives to:
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educate managers and employees on disabled staff and the company
agreement;
recruit more than 2% of disabled people in the engineering and support sectors
for Renault s.a.s.;
consolidate its partnership through a special plan to promote the professional
insertion of disabled people;
promote the integration of disabled young recruits and meet their requests
concerning professional mobility;
support job retention through the redevelopment of work stations.
Renault plans to continue deploying this agreement in 2008.
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3.1.3.3 NON-DISCRIMINATION
Renault aims to ensure equal opportunity. All employees must be able to express
themselves in line with their commitment, their skills and their talent. To this end,
Renault prevents all forms of discrimination. The principle of non-discrimination
implies equal treatment based on the application of identical rules and criteria
for all employees, at all stages of Human Resources management (recruitment,
training, promotion). Renault set up an initiative in 2006 to educate employees
on discrimination issues. The focus that year was on HR staff and management
committees. Renault continued to implement this policy in 2007, and plans to
extend it internationally.
3.1.3.4 MANAGEMENT-LABOR DIALOGUE ✦
Renault aims to maintain continuous, responsible and high-quality dialogue
between management and labor at all levels of the company. This dialogue
underpins the technical, economic and social changes stemming from the
implementation of corporate strategy. The company encourages negotiation
to promote decision-making at grass-roots level, and to prepare and manage
change by seeking a balance and a convergence of interests between the
company and its employees.
In October 2005 a Group-wide policy for relations with staff representatives
was defi ned to make sure that Renault assumes this social responsibility in
every country where it does business. The policy refl ects the Declaration of
Employees’ Fundamental Rights signed on October 12, 2004 and confi rms the
Group’s strong commitment to staff representation.
Dialogue between management and labor continued apace in 2007.
In 2000, the Renault group Works Council became the only employee
representative body spanning the entire Group. Its role is to establish a
transnational dialogue between management and labor on the situation and
strategy of the Group, and on major developments. Following the renewal of
the agreement on the Renault Works Council on April 26, 2007, two new full
members (Romania and Poland) have joined, along with a Russian observer.
The council now comprises 34 representatives from 19 countries, working for
Renault’s majority-owned subsidiaries in the European Union and worldwide
(Brazil, Argentina, Korea, Turkey, Russia). Two additional European deputy
secretaries (Slovenia and Romania) have joined the select committee. In 2007
the Works Council met once in plenary session. The European Group Committee
met once, and the select Committee, composed of ten members (including fi ve
European secretaries excluding France) met 11 times.
The Works Council of Renault s.a.s is regularly informed and/or consulted on the
general operation of the company and its subsidiaries (founding of subsidiaries
outside France, new Group organization by Region, etc.). The Works Council
met nine times in 2007, and the bureau 13 times. The economic commission
met six times and the central training commission twice.
In 2007, fi ve collective agreements were signed at Renault s.a.s., concerning
teleworking (agreement of January 22, 2007), wages (agreement of
February 19, 2007), the Group Works Council (agreement of April 26, 2007), the
Works Council composition (agreement of July 24, 2007) and the redistribution
of profi ts (agreement of December 18, 2007).
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