Reinforcing our social attractiveness
The Group's main attraction for employees is its business : the service of the environment, society and sustainable development.
Currently, in a context of growth and increased globalization, the women and men who have chosen this sector and make up the company community are at the heart of our performance.
By 2015, we will employ about 600,000 people, which is twice our current workforce.
For new talents and diversified profiles
France will continue its growth and will employ a quarter of our total number of employees in 2015. However, at the same time it is expected that three quarters of our employees will work outside France in about a hundred countries, due to the strong international development of our Group.
Recruiting or integrating almost 500,000 talented new employees by 2015 assumes a human resource policy concentrating on several major challenges.
In a context in which available talent on the market is rarifying, and our business is facing tougher competition, our first challenge will be to attract, train and keep the best talent in all the socioprofessional categories that form our company's structure and in all job areas in which we work.
To achieve this, we will need to deploy and reinforce our employer identity by a forceful communication on our jobs, our social policy and our opportunities.
These major challenges have been the reason for a number of priority projects.
We are also carrying out an ambitious professionalizing recruitment policy for all candidates, regardless of their age and their initial training. Thus in 2007, the Veolia Competence operation recruited 6,600 people in France.
The vitality of these approaches in different parts of the world can easily be seen by looking at Veolia Energy - Dalkia's nursery of international managers working in more than thirty countries, and Veolia Transport's European recruitment campaign.
For the development of skills and professional progress
We have developed the Campus Veolia Environnement dedicated to training, so as to develop our human resources and give our employees the opportunity to achieve professional and social progress matching their efforts.
Campus Veolia is a genuine skills platform, and offers initial work-study contracts and continuous training courses.
Three apprentice training centers were opened in France in 2007.
They are the first operational bases for regional campuses. Throughout the world, Campus Veolia Environnement already unites a network of twenty campuses in eleven countries (United States, Czech Republic, Morocco, etc.).
A large number of academic partnerships between Group subsidiaries and local universities are supporting this ambitious policy at the service of the development of skills.
This commitment contributes to increasing the ratio of internal promotions. This ratio has been increasing regularly since 2005, and was 4.6% in 2007.
Diversity, a development asset
Our cultural, economic and social diversity is our strength. We are firmly established in all regions in which we have branch offices throughout the world, and we would like to further strengthen this asset for our development.
Thus, in 2007, an ambitious work program was launched : "To respect differences and equality of opportunities",
which after a preliminary review, has demonstrated three lines of progress;
- keep disabled workers in jobs and integrate new disabled workers;
- access of women to responsibilities and to certain professions;
- make managing teams more international.
We are making recruiters more aware of the integration of those with disabilities and we are working on the production of transverse tools; this is why we have strengthened our'Handicap' operation.
Fair and equitable remuneration
Our salary policy is attractive, to attract and keep our employees. Its guiding principles include equitable remuneration, reducing disparities, and facilitating access to savings from earnings.
In 2007, this policy resulted in the signature of 1,020 agreements in our different countries of operation.
195,500 employees in twenty-seven countries were also offered the opportunity to benefit from the increase in the Group's 2007 capital. The percentage of Veolia Environnement's capital held by employees is now 1.63%, held by 33,000 people, and in eight countries more than in 2006.
Encouraging employee-employer communication
We want to reinforce and identify our role in social mobility, with all employees in our company.
This entire policy, its results and its prospects for the future demonstrate our commitment to social communication.
Employee-employer communication is essential to our model and our efforts are helping us to make continuous progress. Thus, there has been a significant increase in the number of collective agreements signed since 2005.
There were 16,072 personnel representatives in 2007, which is 12% more than there were in 2005, illustrating the strength of our commitment to employee-employer communication.
Another sign of the magnitude of our mobilization is the breakdown of collective agreements by theme, particularly concentrating on remuneration.
Degree of commitment of Veolia Environnement
