Key figures

 

Employment:

Employees

Workforce: 996

Number of women: 53

Number of blue collar workers: 726

 

Training:

Percentage of real expenditure in relation to payroll: 1.4%

Rate of access to training: 91

Average number of hours of training per employee:  44

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Collective bargaining agreements signed by the site

• No agreements were signed in 2007.

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Workforce

• Breakdown of workforce at end-December 2007:

- 86% permanent positions (of which 63 fixed-term contracts that were made permanent).
- 8% fixed-term contracts.
- 6% temporary workers.

The workforce consists of 1,011 men and 53 women.

• Average staff age: 41
  

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Training hours

A large volume of training was delivered in 2007. The manufacturing sector accounted for 63% of total training hours.

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Occupational accidents

In 2007, the plant renewed its Health, Safety and Working Conditions label.

Regular activity focused on preventing workplace accidents and promoting safer working conditions.

The target was achieved with only one lost-time accident.

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Initiative & Creativity

• Very strong employee commitment to the plant’s smooth operation.

• Increase in suggestions and personal initiatives.

• Savings generated.
  

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Highlights

 

Initiatives to promote employees' fundamental rights

• Promoting health

Internal communications campaign on smoking: semi-monthly newsletter, weekly factsheet. Visits to doctors and psychologists to help employees quit smoking. Subsidies to purchase nicotine substitutes and monitoring of progress on quitting.

• Promoting safety and good working conditions

Campaigns to promote safety and good working conditions.

- Weekly competitions between Basic Work Teams: random audit of workstations from four BWTs drawn out of a hat, with a score based on a set of criteria. The BWT with the highest score receives a prize. 
- Weekly competition on individual protective gear: random inspection of 10 workers.