Key figures

 

Employment:

Employees

Workforce: 3,954

Number of women: 511

Number of blue collar workers: 51

Training:

Percentage of real expenditure in relation to payroll: 6.4%

Rate of access to training: 76%

Average number of hours of training per employee:  29.4

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Collective bargaining agreements signed by the site

• Agreement on promoting staff initiative and creativity at the Rueil-Lardy site.

• Agreement of December 19, 2007 concerning the joint committee to be set up in 2008, whose task will be to improve the living and working conditions of staff at the Guyancourt-Aubevoye and Rueil-Lardy sites.
  

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Workforce

• The workforce consists of 45% engineers and executives (this category accounted for less than 40% of the workforce in 2002) and 51% technicians.

• Women make up 13% of the total. The number of women decreased slightly in 2007 when a support division was closed on the Rueil site (Sales Service and Quality Division).

• The average age of employees on the site was 40.5 at end-2007. As a result of hiring in the past few years, the average age has fallen over the past eight years. More than 25% of staff have been at the site for less than five years. 
  
   

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Training hours

The training plan has refocused on business priorities against a backdrop of changing training processes.

A reorganization of training logistics began in 2007. The aim was to increase efficiency and cut costs. The reorganization, which is almost complete, kept within the budget allocated for the volume of training delivered.

Skills training makes up the bulk of training courses. A number of special initiatives were also organized as part of the staff support plan with, in particular:

• management support training on stress prevention for all departmental managers and Basic Work Team Managers;

• new impetus for training in personal efficiency and English with the allocation of a special budget;

• a course set up to raise awareness on issues of economic performance was attended by all managers.

At the end of the year, Basic Work Team Managers were able to receive training support during the period of annual performance and development reviews.

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Occupational accidents

The number of lost-time occupational accidents increased slightly on 2006 at the Rueil-Lardy site (15 compared with 21). There has been a significant reduction in the number of accidents relative to the number of hours worked.

In 2007, the number of lost-time days remained stable (388 at Rueil-Lardy compared with 359 in 2006), reflecting the initiatives taken in 2007 to improve safety and working conditions.

Efforts to cut the frequency and severity of occupational accidents continued in 2008. An action plan was put in place to pursue continuous improvements in safety and working conditions.

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Initiative & Creativity

The number of Practical Suggestions for Improvement was 0.96 per person.

In 2007 the Renault Rueil-Lardy site signed a new agreement to promote staff initiative and creativity.

The agreement aims to develop the number of cost-cutting Practical Suggestions for Improvement that deliver savings for the company and thus to focus on the quality of suggestions rather than on quantity.

This aim has been achieved since the number of cost-cutting Practical Suggestions for Improvement has doubled in the past year. The authors of ideas have also benefited through bonuses and royalties

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Highlights

 

Initiatives to promote employees' fundamental rights

• Promoting health

The workplace health service donates flu vaccines left over from the vaccination campaign to the solidarity representative in charge of homeless people at Paris City Council. Furniture from the Rueil infirmary, which was renovated, was donated to a charity in Mali.

• Promoting safety and good working conditions

In 2007, the site provided access to a car-sharing site. Registration on the site is free for employees seeking or offering to share a car. By the end of the year, the site recorded about 300 employee registrations for 500 journeys. Since the site went online, more than 16,800 hits have been recorded.

• Ensuring equal opportunities

On December 4, 2007, to commemorate the International Day of Disabled Persons, the site organized an initiative to raise awareness on the theme of living together to help employees feel more comfortable with other people’s or their own disabilities. Underpinned by the Renault Agreement on Disability, these actions restated the company’s political commitment to encouraging and supporting disabled workers in their day-to-day work.