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The Casino group strengthens its commitment to gender equality
Agreement signed on gender equality in the workplace
Building on its more than 15-year commitment to promoting equal opportunities in access to employment and career development, the Casino Group announces the signing of an agreement on gender equality in the workplace.
Since 2009, the Casino Group has held the AFNOR Diversity Label, which is awarded to companies that have implemented a comprehensive, properly structured anti-discrimination policy, and the Group remains convinced that team diversity is a factor in both social cohesion and economic performance. Its commitment to equality has just moved up a gear with the signing of a new agreement with the social partners on gender equality in the workplace, based on the areas for improvement identified by Terrafemina.
Gender equality in the workplace is one of the HR priority objectives of the Casino Group, which signed a gender equality agreement with the social partners in its DCF subsidiary as early as 2005.
In 2008, the group also introduced equal pay measures as part of the mandatory annual round of negotiations, with the result that, for equivalent positions, salaries are now at the same level for men and women within the Group.
And in 2010, the Group worked with Terrafemina to carry out a company by company study/diagnosis covering 2008, 2009 and mid-2010, in order to identify the priority areas for improvement that were used as the basis for negotiating the professional gender equality agreement announced today. The Group agreement will apply to every branch and subsidiary from the beginning of 2012.
The agreement covers five major themes : recruitment, training, remuneration, career development and parenting. It also aims to ensure that women are more aware of the managerial positions available to them, including field positions, and provides for various steps to be taken in areas such as combating stereotypes, with the completion of a recruitment guide for all the Group’s HR and recruitment managers. The guide contains specific recommendations and a number of measures to facilitate female employees’ access to training and provisions on remuneration (equality on recruitment, gradual reduction of existing pay gaps, upgrading of part-time contracts). It also aims to ensure fair treatment in career development and a better balance between work and family life by, for example, pursuing partnerships to carry out inter-company crèche projects.
The aim of the framework agreement is to extend the benefit of tried-and tested measures to all Group companies. Within Casino Distribution France, for example, between 2005 and 2010 the percentage of female employees increased from 15.6% to 21.67% for the “executive” category and from 31.6% to 37.12% for supervisors.
The agreement complements and enhances the Group’s very proactive policy for women, as well as recent initiatives such as its work with the Parenting Observatory, whose charter the Group signed up to in 2008, or the creation of a separate, independent network known as “C’avec elles”, which brings together more than 400 of Casino’s female executives. It aims to provide its members with a forum for discussion and dialogue, promote their career development and improve their visibility within the Group.
About the Casino Group
The Casino Group is a leading global food retailer. In addition to its 9,500 outlets in France (Géant Casino, Casino supermarché, Franprix, Leader Price, Monoprix, Petit Casino, Spar, Vival and Cdiscount), the Group owns 2,200 stores abroad, primarily in Latin America (Brazil and Colombia) and South-East Asia (Thailand and Vietnam), which account for 40% of its business. In 2010, the Casino Group achieved a consolidated turnover of 29 billion euros. It employs 230,000 people around the world.
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