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Social Indicators
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3.2.6.1.
Gender Equality
The Supervisory Board strongly believes that promoting women to
leadership positions is a measure of the group’s success and therefore,
in 2011, it approved a networking program to promote a gender balance
at the highest level. In March 2012, the ANDIAMO network was created,
serving as a forum for some twenty female senior managers from the
group’s French subsidiaries. The purpose of this network is to empower
women and support them in their career development, helping to combat
the glass ceiling effect through the personal accounts of role models and
through co-development and training workshops.
Almost all of the group’s French companies have also signed innovative
agreements on gender equality:
p
p
collective agreement on professional equality of men and
women, pursuant to the law of March 23, 2006 providing for the
implementation of a comprehensive set of measures (recruitment,
promotion, compensation and maternity leave) and indicators to
monitor the mechanisms put in place;
p
p
parent-friendly agreements calling for equal treatment for father and
mother; and
p
p
agreements on working hours to facilitate a work / private life
balance, for men and women.
Among the measures taken to enhance existing provisions for social
progress, are the following:
p
p
improving parity in recruiting, especially in certain sectors, and
respecting equality in terms of access to employment;
p
p
promoting homogeneity and equity in the breakdown of men and
women in all the company’s jobs and job classifications;
p
p
promoting equal opportunities in career development;
p
p
guaranteeing wage equality between men and woman performing
the same jobs at the same skills level and with the same level of
accountability for results;
p
p
guaranteeing equality in terms of professional development and pay
increases in the event of a career interruption for parental, maternity
or adoption leave; and
p
p
striving for improvement in terms of reconciling personal and
professional life, taking parental issues into account.
The Canal+ Group makes its partner hiring firms aware of the objective
of increasing the number of women on final lists of applicants. In
terms of internal mobility, Canal+ promotes mobility towards business
units with a gender imbalance and allocates funding in its budget
for on-the-job training.
Parental agreements provide for career flexibility by allowing for periods
of absence (maternity or parental leave). Both Vivendi in Paris and the
Canal+ Group hold pre- and post-maternity leave interviews.
More generally, Vivendi aims for gender parity in succession plans and
promotions. These agreements include measures to identify and remedy
any pay differentials. For example, the Canal+ Group has eliminated
periods of maternity leave from the annual assessment, has identified
pay differentials for equivalent posts and taken remedial action,
and has provided for the principle of a special budget, if necessary,
in annual compensation budgets to remedy any pay differentials
in the various categories.
Lastly, programs promoting changes in behavior and combating
stereotypes have been introduced at all levels throughout the group:
p
p
projects aimed at empowering individuals and training in female
leadership;
p
p
organization of networks with the participation of role models:
meetings between experienced women and young female employees;
communication on successful career development of women working
in male-dominated positions; and
p
p
various tools requiring awareness on the part of employees: Code of
Conduct, Ethics Commitment (GVT), Compliance Program, etc.
Proportion of Women in Management
In France, a
cadre
is an employee who has a significant level of
responsibility and autonomy, and who is subject to performance
obligations (operations, production, development and project
management).
In other countries, this concept is not applied, and the closest equivalent
is a manager who is paid a salary rather than an hourly wage.
Accordingly, in the table below, female managers (in other countries) and
female
cadres
in France are both accounted for.
Proportion of Women in Management
GRI
UNGC
OECD
G4-10, G4-LA12
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2014
2013
C+G
45%
47%
UMG
41%
41%
Vivendi Village
35%
38%
Corporate
51%
49%
Sub-total
42%
43%
GVT
28%
28%
Total
40%
41%
Calculation method: number of women managers in relation to all
managers.
This proportion has remained stable over the past two years for the group
as a whole.
Women on Vivendi’s Supervisory Board
Percentage of Women on Vivendi’s Supervisory Board
GRI
UNGC
OECD
G4-34, G4-LA12
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IV, V.1.e
2014
2013
Consolidated data
35.7%
38.5%
There are five women among the 14 directors comprising Vivendi’s
Supervisory Board.
Based on the percentage of women on its Supervisory Board, Vivendi
ranks high among the 120 French companies that participated in the
study
(1)
conducted by the Ministry of Women’s Rights in October 2014.
(1)
Study available on the Ethics and Boards website.
3.2.6.
Diversity and Equal Opportunities
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