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On February 21, the French Secretary of State for the Disabled, Sophie Cluzel, met with readers of the newspaper La Provence, who are directly or indirectly confronted with disability in the workplace.
Laurence Lelouvier, Onet's Human Resources Director, took part in the event. This was an opportunity for the Group, which is strongly committed to this issue, to speak out on the value of diversity and inclusion initiatives within its companies.
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Recruiting and retaining disabled people: the key role of companies
Sophie Cluzel, Secretary of State for the Disabled, listened attentively to the six readers of La Provence who came to chat with her on February 21.
Our Director of Human Resources and CSR, Laurence Lelouvier, was able to take part in this meeting, which was rich in exchanges, where each participant was able to express his or her vision and ask questions on the subject of disability in the company. Among the various points raised, and in addition to questions relating to hiring, she was asked in particular about maintaining the employment of disabled people.
Our Group is convinced that we must continue to promote the recruitment of people with disabilities. Preserving these jobs is essential to ensure that inclusion is a permanent feature of our corporate culture, and that diversity is a long-term commitment.
Laurence Lelouvier commented: "What would be interesting would be to move away from a single focus on rates, and focus on the actions deployed to promote diversity policies. In this way, we could maintain the notion of rates, which validate a certain commitment in terms of recruitment and job retention. But we could combine it with a criterion for measuring the concrete actions implemented within companies, as this rate alone does not necessarily reflect the policy undertaken by the company".
[According to Sophie Cluzel's speech at the meeting, private companies achieve an average rate of 3.8%].
Our Group, which develops a culture of employment and career development among its employees on a daily basis, will employ 7% of people with disabilities in 2019.
"Very committed to inclusion, we wanted to go beyond our legal obligations by creating a network not just of disability advisors, but of inclusion advisors. Their role will be to support teams in the recognition, skills development, employability and job retention processes, as well as to promote diversity in all its forms", explains Laurence Lelouvier.
Our view of disability
The notion of disability is difficult to grasp and often misunderstood in the workplace. In fact, the term covers a wide range of situations with varying consequences for employment. 80% of disabilities are invisible. A disability that is not necessarily visible can nevertheless have an impact on the day-to-day lives of the employees concerned.
Our Group makes its employees aware of this issue. Through regular in-house information sessions, our employees can re-learn what is meant by disability.
The aim of this awareness-raising campaign is not only to highlight the importance of recognizing all forms of disability within our Group by dispelling certain preconceived ideas, but also to let the people concerned know that they can be supported in their efforts to have their disability recognized within the Group.
Read about our employees' experiences in the article: Inclusion at the heart of Onet's CSR approach: Group initiative and strategy
Inclusion at the heart of our disability policy
Our policy on disability has been in place since 2016, with the aim of better inclusion of people with disabilities. But the Group wants to go further: "We now need to embark on a policy of inclusion," says Laurence Lelouvier.
The challenge of this policy is to go beyond the notion of integration to fully deploy inclusion.
Since 2019, our policies have been coordinated to accelerate our commitment to diversity audiences (men, women, young people, seniors, jobseekers, from priority urban districts, people with disabilities, etc.).
Committed to SEEPH, a signatory of the Diversity Charter, or a supporter of the Job À Cœur association... Discover our actions in favor of inclusion.
And to find out more about the Group's global CSR policy, consult our Responsible Development report.
