The close monitoring carried out by the Group and its business lines and divisions may trigger the commissioning of a third-party audit, especially in the event of the decline of a key performance indicator.
Main performance indicators in 2021
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(*) These indicators were verified with a reasonable level of assurance by an independent third party.
VINCI has made public commitments to respect, protect and promote the rights of people and local communities that may be impacted by its projects and activities. The Group continuously strengthens its procedures to assess and prevent human rights risks, while also assisting its entities to engage on the issue and find operational solutions. This is because it understands that issues affect people’s lives at the local level and considers that solutions must therefore be developed on the ground, close to its operations. Fully aware of the complexity of the challenge, VINCI has also adopted a continuous improvement approach with its stakeholders and peers.
A Human Rights Steering Committee, comprised of the human resources directors of all business lines and divisions, was set up at the end of 2015 to undertake the extensive work required to identify the Group’s major risks. Employee consultations and discussion forums were held, at which representatives of organisations or companies outside the Group sometimes participated to share their experience. The steering committee also took into account international standards, specialist research, guidelines and previous work produced by the Group (such as its handbook on fundamental social rights or standards for workers’ accommodation).
Main international standards and conventions underlying VINCI’s approach
This analysis of risks and issues was also informed by the human rights impact assessment commissioned by VINCI in Qatar and carried out by an independent third party, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), in 2015. The methodology used for the impact assessment was to identify, in the different sets of codified rights, those issues that were salient to the Group’s activities. Interviews were held with key VINCI stakeholders, such as the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH), the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and non-governmental organisations having worked on human rights issues in that region (Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Engineers Against Poverty, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, etc.).
In the summer of 2016, the Human Rights Steering Committee validated five salient issues, broken down into 17 specific themes. They describe areas where VINCI’s activities can have a significant impact on human rights, which include those of employees, subcontractors, temporary workers, local residents and local communities. Since their publication, the relevance of the salient issues identified has been confirmed by various Group entities and validated by feedback from operational teams in different countries. Likewise, dialogue with members of the European Works Council has not led to any change in the risk map to date.
