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Helping staff involved
in the community
This programme was launched by
Fondation BNP Paribas in late 2002
with the objective of assisting BNP
Paribas France employees involved
in voluntary work and fundraising
projects in the community.
In recognition of the high quality of
the projects received and the enthusiasm
shown by staff, the members of the
Corporate Sponsorship Committee made 35 grants, ranging from
EUR 600 to EUR 2,000, for a total of 49 applications in 2003.
Approximately half of the projects were aimed at helping
children and youths concerned activities for the disabled,
with humanitarian, social inclusion and community health
projects accounting for the remainder.
Michel Duchevet and his
association offer young people
from Livry-Gargan a chance
to go on holiday
Employee-employer relations
BNP Paribas continued to develop its labourmanagement
processes in 2003 in order
to keep pace with the Group’s growth and
to promote on-going consultation and dialogue
with employee representatives.
Company agreements. The Commission on
Employment Law – BNP Paribas SA’s labour
information and negotiation body – met on
forty occasions in 2003. Thanks to these regular
meetings, a total of 13 company agreements,
including agreements on compensation and
profit-sharing, were signed.
European works council and Group works
council. Building on the agreement which
established the BNP Paribas’ European works
council in 1986, ahead of the transposition of
the European directive into French law, Executive
Management and social partners reached a
consensus on the need to adapt this body,
notably in light of European enlargement
and the lessons learned from the council’s
functioning since its establishment. The signing
of a new agreement illustrates the Group’s
determination to further develop employee
consultation and incorporate the proposals made.
In a similar vein, a company agreement was also
approved which introduces modifications
to the functioning of the Group works council
and the number of employee representatives
elected to this body in order to take into account
changes in the Group’s size and characteristics.
Employee representative bodies: a decentralised
system. To address the implications of recent
organisational changes within French Retail
Banking operations, a company agreement
was signed on a new organisational scope
for employee representative bodies. The new
structure is designed to promote decentralisation
and increase local representation.
Internal communications
Ambitions is the quarterly in-house magazine
distributed to everyone who works in the
BNP Paribas Group. The magazine is published
in print and electronic form and has a print run of
90,000 copies. One-third of the print run is
distributed in English. While Ambitions has proven
highly successful, intranet technology is rapidly
emerging as the medium of choice for internal
communication. In 2003, Human Resources
intranet sites operated for BNP Paribas Group and
BNP Paribas SA employees continued to receive
a high number of visits while the EchoNet portal
had an average of 22,000 visitors per day.
B2E (“Business to Employee”), the Group’s
employee intranet portal, was launched towards
the end of 2003. The site, which offers a
personalised working environment based on a
single-entry point providing customised access
to information, is organised around five themes:
The BNP Paribas Group – understanding the
Group’s environment: organisation, strategy,
business mission and operations of the Group
and its entities.
News – bulletins and announcements from
the Group and business lines: personalised
or general news, press releases, appointments,
publications.
Employee Related – an HR information centre:
leave, performance appraisals, internal mobility,
training, employee savings, employee rights
issues, staff provident scheme.
Facilities – making daily life easier: ordering
business cards, special staff offers, IT support,
photocopying.
My business – day-to-day business functions:
business announcements, reporting procedures,
project spaces and peer support groups.
In time, the employee Intranet will operate as an
information system offering access to Group news,
as well as personalised information on business line,
entity, activity and functional line activities; and
updates on developments within local businesses
and subsidiaries. These functions are currently being
progressively rolled out. Once complete, the system
will provide all of the Group’s employees around
the world with access to a customised and
structured information environment.