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Rueil-Malmaison (France), 18 May 2017 – Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy
management and automation, and industriAll Europe, a European trade union federation of workers
in the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors, signed a refreshed agreement today that creates
an anticipatory and proactive employment policy to boost growth in Europe.
• The agreement creates a governance for jobs and skills at the company by anticipating
impact and evolutions in business in line with current market trends and company’ ambition;
• It sets clear objectives for boosting employees’ employability, and for enriching the
workforce by diversity and digital generation recruitment;
• It reinforces constructive social dialogue at European and local level within the company.
“With this agreement, Schneider Electric made commitments towards all its European employees to
support the strengthening of their employability and the promotion of their career development.”
commented, Luc Triangle, industriAll Europe, General Secretary. “We welcome the fact that by
setting a floor of principles and rights at European level, this agreement paves the way for European
workers to be on equal footing with one another. This agreement now needs to be turned into reality
in the workplace. Social dialogue is a key tool to implement it at local level” he added.
Laure Collin, Chair of the European Works Council and Senior Vice President of Human Resources –
Europe Operations for Schneider Electric, said: “We are proud to have reached this agreement with
industriAll Europe. It will enable Schneider Electric and our 45,000 employees in the 29 European
countries to be better equipped to adapt to current challenges such as energy transition, digital
transformation, evolving professions and increasing the number of young employees, while the
company continues to pursue investment and growth.”
The two partners “acknowledge that this agreement sets out a new framework, based on shared
principles for all Schneider Electric entities in Europe, to help anticipate changes and their impact on
the Group’s employees.”
The key objectives of the agreement are to:
• Provide visibility to social partners and employees on Schneider Electric’s employment
trends in Europe;
• Promote ongoing career development to help employees contribute to the
transformations at the heart of the Group’s strategy;
• Maintain and further develop the company’s core skills;
• Boost a learning culture by offering at least seven hours of training per employee and
per year;
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• Manage our age pyramid by attracting new skills, mainly targeting the digital generation
always keeping our future customer profile in mind.
To reach these objectives, the agreement involves the creation of a European observatory for jobs
and skills, designed to provide a global, shared vision of each business’s strategic priorities, and their
challenges in terms of jobs, resources and skills.
The agreement will be monitored by a commission composed of a delegation from industriAll
Europe, including members of the European Works Core Council. This commission will meet within
six months of signing, and then every two years to report on the implementation of the agreement
across Schneider Electric Group’s different entities.
Contact: Isabelle Barthes, isabelle.barthes@industriall-europe.eu
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