EMPLOYMENT
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GLOBAL COMPACT
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| 2007 targets | Between March 2007 and April 2008 | Between May 2008 and February 2009 | |
|---|---|---|---|
CLEANING |
150 |
170 permanent contracts |
64 permanent contracts |
SECURITY |
100 |
65 permanent contracts |
42 permanent contracts |
TEMPORARY |
150 ETP * |
250 people appointed, equivalent to 50 people full time; 42 people trained |
328 people appointed, equivalent to 70 people full time; 97 people trained |
*FTE: full time equivalent
What is more, we were able to keep 45 employees in employment during this period, despite an official notice of possible unfitness for work by the services for workplace health.
Avenues of progress in 2009
The Samsic Group had already declared its desire to maintain, on a permanent basis, this initiative of integrating people with disabilities within the Group. On 15th June, Christian Roulleau, Group CEO, signed a new, three-year agreement with Agefiph, a private organisation for employment for the disabled. This agreement aims to develop Samsic’s commitments in terms of integrating people with disabilities, and reassert the qualitative dimension.
The new agreement, which reflects Agefiph’s confidence in the Samsic Group, began on 1st March, and will continue until 29th February 2012.
The spirit of this new commitment is in line with what has already been achieved, and at the same time strengthens the means, so as to offer stability of employment to people with disabilities.
The new commitments can be broken down as follows:
- For temporary posts: to establish 150 full time equivalent posts, and offer a return to employment by training people with disabilities;
- For the Security business: to integrate 150 new people with disabilities on permanent contracts;
- For the Cleaning business: to integrate 250 new people with disabilities on permanent contracts;
- For the Group, implicitly in all business areas: to reinforce still further the durable nature of the occupational integrations carried out, by strengthening follow-up for disabled employees, and give priority to alternance training contracts for new recruits.
With this new agreement, the Samsic Group has reasserted its desire to develop a qualitative employment policy for people with disabilities.
ILLUSTRATED PRINCIPLES Nos. 8 & 9
Furthering the commitments made in 2008
Decisive commitments were made in 2008, via the use of technologies that are more environmentally friendly and therefore better for the health of our staff and clients. Samsic Propreté, the cleaning division, had pledged to substitute 30% of its volume (in litres) of commonly-used cleaning products by the end of 2008 with detergents that had received the European Eco label.
Between November and December 2008, more than 40% of commonly-used cleaning products that were ordered displayed the European eco-label flower. It was possible to turn this commitment into action thanks to:
- ongoing training and campaigns to raise awareness at all levels within the company, both operationally and functionally;
- a voluntary initiative of substitution on the part of all the companies within Samsic Propreté;
- the continued support of Purchasing Management, the driving force for substituting "conventional" cleaning products with Eco-label products.
PERCENTAGE OF ECO-LABELLED PRODUCTS WITHIN TOTAL ORDERS FOR CLEANING PRODUCTS
In a desire to maintain this initiative and continue our efforts, Samsic Propreté has pledged to increase the order of Eco-label products to 50% by July 2010.
Participation in ecodesign by the Cleaning division
In partnership with Samsic Propreté, EME (Ecole des Métiers de l’Environnement, a higher educational establishment in Rennes, specialising in environmental studies) and EVEA (an ecodesign consultancy based in Nantes) competed and were selected in the context of a call for proposals co-ordinated by ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency).
The aim of this project is to identify the key lifecycle impacts of industrial cleaning so as to define a set of criteria for environmental best practices.
The study will focus on two key sectors of public markets, namely Tertiary and Health, which have the added advantage of being relevant to the private sector.
Currently, measures reflecting a desire to respect the environment are developing in the cleaning services sector, relating to actions that are in various stages of advancement:
- ISO 14001 certification, a guarantee of continued improvement;
- the use of cleaning products or equipment that are “more ecological” or have eco-labels or equivalent;
- membership of programmes of support for sustainable development, such as the United Nations Global Compact.
In this context, the project partners wish to go a step further by studying the lifecycle impacts of cleaning activity on the environment and offering an environmentally friendly service based not on self-declaration but on criteria that can be used for creating an eco-label for services granted by an independent party.
Amongst other issues at Samsic Propreté, the working teams, guided by EME and with the support of EVEA, will study the entire cycle of cleaning processes and all their required technical means (energy, products, materials and auxiliary equipment, effluents and waste, transport, etc.). At the end of this research, the three partners will submit their conclusions to ADEME, which could study, along with all the representative participants, the possible creation of an environmental label specific to the provision of services in this sector.
Expected spin-offs from the Enviropropre project:
- Instilling loyalty in existing clients / attracting prospective clients who are increasingly receptive to making responsible choices in terms of their suppliers / sub-contractors
- Economic gains in the management of physical inflows (essential materials and products, etc.) and outflows (discharges, waste, emissions, etc.)
