2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
2010Annual Report - Schneider Electric CZ, s.r.o.
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2 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<br />
COMMITTED TO AND ON BEHALF OF EMPLOYEES<br />
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Equal employment opportunity (France)<br />
At end-2010, some 2,800 managers, 550 of these in France, were<br />
trained in gender diversity. The testimony we have received, in<br />
addition to the facts and fi gures, support the general focus of these<br />
training modules aimed at raising awareness and preventing the risk<br />
of discrimination, while informing participants on the positive impact<br />
of gender diversity.<br />
The company’s Equal Employment Opportunity seal of approval was<br />
renewed and <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> was awarded France’s Diversity<br />
Award.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> took on the role of sponsor of a women’s<br />
leadership development program, the EVE program, in partnership<br />
with six other major French companies.<br />
Disability (France)<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> signed its eighth Group Agreement in<br />
January 2010. The three-year Agreement (2010, 2011 and 2012) is<br />
managed and promoted globally and throughout the country by a<br />
core network with members from inside and outside the Company<br />
(Purchasing Department, Employment Management Department,<br />
Occupational Health Department, Communication Department, labor<br />
– management representatives and specialist agencies). “Disability<br />
Offi cers” are responsible for local deployment.<br />
6 Employee share ownership<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> is convinced that employee share ownership is<br />
instrumental in strengthening companies’ capital (both fi nancial and<br />
human), and that employee shareholders are long-term partners.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> Approach<br />
The Group has been building an international employee shareholder<br />
base since 1995 that is representative of the Group’s diversity. The<br />
ultimate aim is for employees to hold roughly 7% of the capital.<br />
Main action plans for 2010<br />
Employee share ownership plan 2010<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> has ramped up its in-house communication to<br />
employees to ensure that they have a clear understanding of the<br />
challenges facing the Company, its policy and its fi nancial results.<br />
Against the backdrop of a clearly complex stock market, the “2010<br />
Plan” was very well received, with 17,700 employees in 17 countries<br />
subscribing shares for a total of EUR144 million.<br />
The employee shareholding at December 31, 2010 represented:<br />
• 4.11% of <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> SA’s capital and 6.14% of the voting<br />
rights;<br />
2010 REGISTRATION DOCUMENT SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> recruits through work-study programs for positions<br />
that are predominantly technical, and also for service sector positions<br />
ranging from the Certifi cat d’Aptitude Professionnelle (skills training<br />
certifi cate) to engineering degree level. The company undertakes to<br />
recruit 15 people with disabilities each year on work-study contracts<br />
(training and/or strengthening professional standards) and at least<br />
fi ve people on open-ended contracts.<br />
In 2010, 13 people with disabilities were recruited on work-study<br />
contracts and fi ve on open-ended contracts. In all, employees<br />
with disabilities accounted for 6.09% of employment at <strong>Schneider</strong><br />
<strong>Electric</strong> in France in 2010, 3.09% of these in indirect employment<br />
(subcontracting to the protected sector) and 3.00% in direct<br />
employment. The mobilisation of internal actors and the creation<br />
of a network of responsible persons for disability, named by large<br />
managerial entity, led to an improvement of Group practices; thus,<br />
the objective of 6% set by the State was reached in 2010 for the<br />
fi rst time in fi ve years.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> was awarded the “private sector” award by<br />
the Association des Paralysés de France in 2010 for its role as<br />
“the private enterprise having created the most jobs for disabled<br />
employees”.<br />
• over 30,000 employee shareholders, representing more than<br />
28% of employees worldwide.<br />
The 2011 Plan will cover 83,000 employees in 14 countries<br />
(Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India,<br />
Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, Singapore and the United States).<br />
Socially responsible investment fund<br />
In November 2009, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> created the Fonds <strong>Schneider</strong><br />
énergie FCPE (corporate mutual fund). A number of information<br />
sessions were held on this special purpose fund providing the<br />
opportunity for employees to share in the ideas and actions of<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> outlined in its BipBop program.<br />
Investment in this fund totaled in excess of EUR2 million as of<br />
December 31, 2010, thus enabling 1,500 of the Company’s<br />
employees to take part in social welfare projects in France and<br />
abroad developed as part of the BipBop program.<br />
Reward<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> was recognised among France’s CAC 40<br />
companies with the 2009 special “communicating with employee<br />
shareholders” award by the French Federation of Employee Share<br />
Owners (FAS). This distinction is a tribute to the close, long-standing<br />
relationship established with employee shareholders over the years<br />
through regular, informative communication initiatives both in France<br />
and abroad.