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People with Disabilities
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The Group’s desire to integrate people with disabilities has for many years been reflected in its internal and external commitments to multiple measures on a daily basis.
A wide range of initiatives within the Group and its subsidiaries
In 2011, the Group's collective actions resulted in its increased rate of direct employment of individuals with disabilities:
- INEO signed its first collective agreement with social partners;
- Eight collective agreements and five agreements with AGEFIPH (the organization promoting the professional inclusion of people with disabilities) are currently in force in France.
2011 was also marked by the inauguration of the first European study on the employment of people with disabilities, with a focus on six countries where GDF SUEZ is present.
The disability network
Facilitating initiatives and work done on the ground, and focusing people on joint initiatives: these are the kinds of objectives embraced by the Group’s Disability Network, created by GDF SUEZ, which ran many initiatives in 2010 focused on recruiting people with disabilities.
As part of the 2010 work-study campaign, GDF SUEZ created a website to organize an operation that saw the number of job applications from people with disabilities grow sharply.
The Group Disability Network also led the creation of a regional partnership in Île-de-France with the Association for the Social and Professional Inclusion of People with Disabilities - ADAPT. As part of this partnership, Network members joined under the common identity of GDF SUEZ for the job forum in Paris on November 17, 2010. On that occasion, more than 300 CVs of people with disabilities were collected across all the Group’s businesses.
Cofely Services wins the 2010 CAP48 Employment Prize
In Belgium, Cofely Services won the CAP 48 Employment Prize for its “Integrating People with Disabilities” project, launched in 2008 with two partners: IRSA and Manpower Unlimited. Since 2006, CAP 48 in collaboration with RTBF has run the “Trends/Tendance” magazine and Régie Média Belge. This Corporate Citizenship Prize rewards public or private company initiatives promoting jobs and accessibility for people with disabilities, and solidarity. For the 2010 edition, Cofely Services took top prize in the “Jobs” category for its actions promoting employment of the deaf and partially deaf.
The “Integrating People with Disabilities” project aimed at allowing deaf and partially deaf teachers and students to get together face-to-face. It was created as a result of the electricity training division of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind - RIDB - contacting the project to find companies that might want to train its teachers and offer internships for students.
The proposal resounded with Cofely Services, and the project quickly took off as a real corporate project, with site visits, logistics support and the organization of 900 hours of training. Today five partially deaf employees work at Cofely Services, including on site. Special measures have been put in place to accommodate them: appropriate safety instructions, a sign language course, and fun training for teams. With the success of these first hires, for the employees involved and the company as a whole, Cofely Services will be extending its initiative over the coming years.
