France: Carrefour launches plan to bolster ‘diversity of origin’ in its teams Diversity As announced in February 2022, the FTSE Women Leaders Review has called on the largest unlisted companies to voluntarily publish figures on their female participation rates in senior executive and management teams for analysis purposes.…
Interview Laurence Hulin (La Poste): “We have created expert roles to support disabled employees” Diversity France's postal service operator La Poste, which has 238,000 employees, has pursued an active policy that has made it one of the leading employers of disabled employees in the country, starting with its first agreement on disability signed back in 1995. Laurence Hulin, La Poste's director of diversity and equal opportunities, looks back at the commitment and actions that have enabled the company to achieve an employment rate for people with disabilities of almost 9%.
France: insurer Maif takes broad view of diversity Diversity On 22 December, the mutual insurance group signed a three-year diversity, equity and inclusion agreement with the four representative trade unions, with the aim of "ensuring equal opportunities and treatment for all". It includes provisions on professional equality and quality of life at work to support employees at important moments in their lives.
France: new workplace equality agreement at TotalEnergies establishes inclusive concept of family Diversity On 24 November, French oil group TotalEnergies (formerly Total) and all its trade unions signed a new agreement on workplace equality. It grants the same rights to all families with regard to parenthood, strengthens support for parents and commits to providing emergency accommodation for victims of domestic violence.
United Kingdom: PwC rolls out staff training on neurodiversity Diversity Professional services giant PwC has rolled out an online training programme, open to its 32,640 UK employees, to help them understand neurodiversity. More than 1,000 employees have already voluntarily started the programme.
United Kingdom: Asos ditches diversity-linked bonuses Diversity Faced with financial difficulties, online fashion retailer Asos has opted to shift attention from diversity, equity and inclusion by once again linking management bonuses solely to financial targets. The change comes at a time when financial pressures appear to be pushing many companies to stop prioritising diversity.
France: Axa receives diversity and inclusion prize for its programme for employees aged 50 and over Diversity On 7 November, Axa France received a special award for diversity and inclusion (Grand Prix Diversité & Inclusion) for an initiative designed to raise awareness of age-related stereotypes. The award, created by diversity support consultancy AFL Diversity and start-up Mixity, under the patronage of the French Ministry for Equality between Men and Women, has been handed out since 2022 for innovative actions and systems put in place to encourage the inclusion of all types of diversity.
France: Eurogroup Consulting offers entry-level consultancy positions to older jobseekers Diversity As it grapples with a competitive labour market and structural staff turnover, Eurogroup Consulting is turning its attention to jobseekers over the age of 45 who are keen to retrain. The consultancy specialising in strategy and organisation has set up a programme called Parcours Rebond ('Rebound Pathway'), which aims to test candidates' ability to embrace the profession through a week's immersion on an assignment with a client company.
Great Britain: electric goods retailer Currys is providing paid gender reassignment leave Diversity On 26 June, UK white goods retailer Currys (32,000 staff worldwide and at least 10,000 in the UK) announced it was offering its UK employees undergoing gender reassignment, access to an additional six-week paid leave scheme. This announcement comes at a time when the retail sector in the UK is still having to cope with unprecedented staff shortages.
France: Apicil proposes a tool to improve inclusivity in companies Diversity In partnership with Mix’r, (a network of responsible companies) and Humando (employment agencies), Apicil, the Lyon-based mutual social protection group (2,000+ employees) has put a questionnaire together that aims to measure employees' perceptions of inclusion and diversity, the goal of which is to make progress in this area. Deployed across its own employees in particular, this tool was able to identify several subjects that respondents perceived as potential factors for discrimination (including physical appearance), and the results will now drive the implementation of specific measures starting in 2023.
