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Diversity at work is one of Orange main assets.

France Telecom Orange intends to make equal opportunities a trademark of its human resources policy from the recruitment stage and throughout its employees’ working lives.

France Telecom-Orange has made gender equality a priority in its equal opportunities policy. The Group has set itself a target of achieving 35% of women in its management bodies by 2015, compared to 23% today. This voluntary target is being monitored by the Executive Committee and affects the variable pay awards of directors. We are implementing action plans in each country with three complementary focus areas: promoting access by women to positions of responsibility, promoting gender parity in all roles and at all levels of the organisation and putting in place measures that facilitate work/life balance by ensuring that parenthood is not a source of discrimination for women or men.

a historic commitment to workers with disabilities

In France, the Group’s Mission Insertion Handicap has been helping workers with disabilities to find employment for over ten years. In 2011, a new three-year agreement was signed with three union organisations (a majority agreement). One of the major aims of the agreement is reach an overall employment rate of workers with disabilities of 5% by 2013 as well as a number of other key commitments, notably an ambitious recruitment programme for workers with disabilities with a minimum of 325 permanent employment contracts, 150 work/study places or traineeships, and a commitment to train at least 60 unqualified candidates who demonstrate potential

supporting the employment of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods

France Telecom-Orange has adopted a voluntary policy to help young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds find employment through a variety of commit-ments taken with the voluntary sector. In 2011, almost 22% of work/study programmes went taken up by young adults from disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

We supports a number of national initiatives in favour of equal opportunity, such as:

  • “Nos quartiers ont des talents” (“there’s talent in every community”), a project that aims to help young graduates from modest backgrounds find employment, and discover new talents outside traditional recruitment channels;
  • Passeport Avenir (“passport to the future”), an inter-company organisation that supports over 700 young people from modest backgrounds through their preparation for the competitive entrance exams to the prestigious grandes écoles and thereafter until they graduate – with impressive results: 92%of the students in the programme in 2011 were accepted into a grande école. Orange provides over 40% of the tutors in the organisation thanks to its highly committed personnel;
  • the Entretiens de l’Excellence (“talks on excellence”), a Club du XXIe siècle initiative, carried out in partnership with the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, whose aim is to inform and advise middle school pupils, secondary school pupils and students from modest backgrounds about the existence and functioning of “excellence” courses.

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last update: 15 May 2013