In 1999 Renault was the first company in France to introduce employee training quotas as part of the agreement on the reorganization of working hours.  The quota takes the form of an annual "banked hours" scheme.

At Renault s.a.s., the quota is:

• 25 hours for shift workers;
• 35 hours for other operators and non-managerial staff;
• six days for engineers and managers

In 2007 the Group continued to develop training across the company. "Core skills" training courses have been designed and implemented for all Group employees on the basis of four formats:

• Renault experts from one entity train Renault employees in another country;
• relay facilitators are trained by Renault experts and then train the employees at their entity;
• Renault employees follow training at another Renault entity in another country;
• Renault employees train themselves using e-learning techniques.

The development of skills schools outside France is also continuing. Engineering schools are now up and running in Korea, Romania, Mercosur and Turkey.

With the adoption of its unique Learning Management System, Renault is now able to implement distance training around the world. For example, engineers from Samsung (Korea), Dacia (Romania) and Oyak (Turkey) have been trained to use the computer-assisted engineering program, in the same way as their colleagues in France.

Common indicators are used to keep track of the implementation of the training policy in all countries, and to measure:

• access to training: across the Group as a whole, an average of four out of every five employees attend one training course each year, representing a training access rate of 78.7%;
• total training expenditure as a percentage of payroll: at Group level, the investment was €174.2 million, or 4.85% of the payroll;
• average number of training hours per person: the Group provided 4.9 million hours of training, or 37.8 hours per employee.