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Economic and Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development
Social Responsibility
2.2.13 equality in the workplace
Pursuing its drive to promote diversity and inclusion
Sodexo France has created a “council for diversity
and inclusion.” Chaired by the Chief executive
officer of this subsidiary, the council consists of
24 employees from 5 different levels of management,
and women account for 54% of the membership.
Its task is to steer the Company’s diversity and
inclusion policy, setting goals and priorities, and
monitoring outcomes.
Gender balance
For Sodexo, the question of gender diversity in the
workplace goes far beyond the question of women
at work, affecting the performance of the Company
itself. Consequently, Sodexo France proposed that
the three existing networks of women managers
merge into a single network dedicated to the question
of gender diversity. The resulting “gender diversity
network” is comprised of both women and men.
18% of Site Managers and 17% of Regional Managers
are now women. The number of women Regional
Directors has quadrupled in four years, and they now
represent 10% of people in this function.
In the past five years, the percentage of women in
management positions has risen from 14% to 29%,
and the percentage of women supervisors has risen
from 18% to 29%.
Over the same period, the percentage of women
on the Executive Committee of Sodexo France has
increased from 20% to 33%.
Lastly, Sodexo pays close attention to creating
opportunities for women to develop their careers
within the Company, and the percentage of women
among employees receiving training has increased
from 30% to 48% between 30% and 48%.
Employees with disabilities
Sodexo subsidiaries in France employ 1,149 workers
with a disability.
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Focus on Sodexo France
Sodexo France employs 893 workers with a
disability, including eight managers, 76 supervisors,
and 809 front-line staff.
In 2009, Sodexo France confirmed its long-term
commitment to hiring individuals with disabilities
in a second “employees with disabilities” agreement.
This agreement, signed by the Labor Department for
the period 2009 through 2011, includes the following
3-year targets to be met: 200 hires, 150 interns,
70 apprentices, and 93 people kept employed.
In addition to recruitment targets, this second
agreement sets two further priorities, namely
keeping disabled employees in work, and giving
them recourse to special protections available for
employees with disabilities.
Two major areas of action in the coming period will
be:
• keeping people with disabilities employed, in
particular through steps to better understand the
needs of people with disabilities; and
• working with partners in the so-called protected
sector among the supplier panel.
This agreement is being monitored and steered by
an organization for disabilities and a disability
Support Network representing nearly 80 people in
France.
As of August 30, 2011, the status of the objectives of
this second agreement was as follows:
• 188 people had been hired on permanent contracts
and 301 on fixed-term contracts;
• 53 apprentices had been recruited (beginning of
the 2009 school year);
• 112 interns had been hired;
• 74 people had been maintained in employment.