ACS Group Annual Report - Grupo ACS

epresented on the boards of directors of its main
divisions, on the boards of directors of the companies
in which ACS has a holding, in the Group’s senior
management and in innumerable technical, fi nancial,
human resources and legal advice offi ces, among
others.
In turn, ACS Group staff turnover was 11.47% in 2010,
with male turnover higher than female, at 13.98%
and 7.55% respectively 2 .
The ACS Group also promotes the hiring of people
with disabilities and offers them a working
environment which enables them to develop under
conditions of equality. To this effect, the number of
people with disabilities in the Group went from 2,367
in 2009 3 to 2,438 in 2010, reaching 1.86% of the
total workforce. In addition, the company collaborates
with Special Employment Centres for the inclusion of
people with disabilities in its workforce.
Several of the ACS Group’s companies also have
programmes for collaboration with certain foundations
to provide opportunities for entry to the labour market
to socially excluded groups, such as ex-convicts,
people dependent on drugs and young people with
serious social problems. This is the case of companies
such as Dragados, Urbaser and Clece, which work with
the Integra Foundation and the Exit Foundation.
The ACS Group also understands the relevance having
local roots and being sensitive to the particular nature
of each place plays in the company’s success. For that
reason, it promotes direct hiring of local employees
and managers 4 . The number of executives from the
local community rose from 546 in 2009 to 566 in 2010.
No incidents related to discrimination were reported
in 2010.
Services for Employees
The ACS Group’s companies offer their employees various
types of social benefits. Worthy of note within these
services, going under various names, with differing content
and scope of application, are the following:
• Life and accident insurance.
• Annual medical checkups.
• Assistance for those with children with disabilities.
• Help with schooling for children and workers taking
courses in official centres.
• Economic assistance for food.
• Company bus service.
With regards to retirement plans, all the ACS Group’s
companies rely on public pension systems and, in addition,
many of them promote partial retirement. For example,
the ETRA Group provides its employees with the necessary
legal advice to assist them in the retirement handling
process.
Flexibility and Reconciliation
ACS hires employees located throughout Spain and also
abroad. For this reason, the Group is aware of the need
for a travel and transfer policy. To this effect and with
the objective of promoting balance between family and
work, ACS forms its work teams for projects, among
other criteria, based on the employees who live closest
to the work centres.
The following are noteworthy among the different
initiatives applied by ACS Group companies to promote
balance between family life and work:
• Flexible hours. The workforce can take up the offer
of flexible working time schemes, with a margin of
one hour, to accommodate their periods for entering
or leaving work to their personal needs.
• Reduction of the working day. There are people
in ACS who have a working day without a break
or a reduced day.
• Accumulation of breast-feeding periods.
• Time off or part-time working for fathers and
mothers after childbirth.
• Change of work centre due to change of residence.
• Management of shift changes between workers
in services.
Again, the ETRA Group stands out due to its exceptional
initiative. In this case this is the application of new
technologies to reduce travel and avoid journeys. As
such, there is the option of holding videoconferences,
making remote desktop connections or using multi-way
conferences. Platforms such as Doodle or SIMULCOM are
used in the latter case.
2
This data correspond to 98% of ACS Group total labor force.
3
The reported data for 2009 is different tan the figures reported last
year, due to the development of the new information management
tool, which feeds the report.
4
Local means people born of with a definitive living permit in the same
geographical market tan the activity of the company.
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