2022 Universal Registration Document

ViE’s employees work to support people on integration programmes, ensure their effective integration within their teams, monitor their missions and, if necessary, find solutions to their potential social issues (housing, administrative procedures, health, language barriers, etc.). In connection with its missions, ViE tests and carries out social innovation actions with a view to improving existing forms of support or introducing new ones. By way of example, the following three actions were developed in 2022:

• In the Greater Paris area, in connection with work to build and fit out VINCI’s new head office (l’archipel), ViE coordinated 114,000 hours of integration work. A total of 174 people on integration programmes were deployed on this project, including 84 long-term job seekers (unemployed for more than two years). The sourcing of candidates and assistance measures were carried out in conjunction with the Maison de l’Emploi et de la Formation job support and training centre in Nanterre as well as eight structures working to facilitate integration via economic activity that were located close to the operation.
• For the western Strasbourg bypass project in the Alsace region, ViE liaised with the project’s management team to set up a social and economic partnership for the first time with Relais Chantiers (organisation responsible for the supervision and execution of the various clauses for Eurométropole de Strasbourg). On this very large-scale project, out of the 200 integration placements set up, 55% of the beneficiaries were from Strasbourg and more than 33% of the contracts were transformed into permanent contracts or fixed-term contracts lasting longer than six months.
• Lastly, liaising with VINCI Energies Est, ViE trialled an innovative recruitment approach enabling 11 people to benefit from a work-based electrician training programme. The aim is to replicate this initiative throughout mainland France.

ViE is working on the employability of long-term job seekers and is developing an innovative approach to map transferable skills and competencies. Launched a few years ago in key regions across France, a support strategy for the return to stable employment called “Stratégie territoriale pour l’emploi”, known by its French acronym Step, offers opportunities for people on integration programmes to develop their skills. The Step programme has an innovative learning approach because it is focused on taking action and enables beneficiaries to gain more independence. Based on the action learning principle, they manage and organise a real project, giving them opportunities to develop their technical, interpersonal and organisational skills. Group work and individual experiences are used to encourage deep thinking and develop both individual and collective skills in a specific work scenario. This approach makes it possible to establish a direct link between different professions across various business sectors in terms of multi-business capabilities, such as soft skills and know-how. This can help people consider new career paths that they would not necessarily have looked at beforehand. ViE focuses specifically on professions that are under pressure, looking to recruit, monitor and support these voluntary participants in sectors where there is a real need for staff.

In terms of social engineering, ViE works with companies on their employee-related and social issues with a view to building and developing their corporate social responsibility strategies, while offering them support and training to handle professional mobility and career changes (voluntary departure plans, etc.). ViE also supports them with their procurement approach in order to develop their adoption of inclusive purchasing practices, working with micro-businesses and SMEs or social and solidarity economy (SSE) organisations, such as social enterprises (EA) and sheltered workshops (ESAT) that specifically employ people with disabilities. This initiative with the business lines and divisions is presented in further detail in paragraph 2.2.2, “Sustainable and long-lasting relationships with local suppliers and subcontractors”, page 214.

Currently, ViE receives no public funding and is testing solutions to improve employability, while exploring the ways in which it can promote social engineering and the most effective forms of assistance it can provide in line with a focus on continuous improvement.

Several Group entities are also applying this proactive approach to promote employment and integration at local level, including the following examples:

• The dedicated unit for the Grand Paris Express projects has set up a training programme in partnership with the Greater Paris GEIQ (one of several regional employers’ groups formed throughout France to promote social integration through work and qualifications) and the Compagnons du Tour de France (a French organisation of trade professionals and artisans dating back to the Middle Ages), following which a number of individuals have been hired on permanent contracts. VINCI has placed over €4 million of purchases with GEIQs in France. In 2022, the Greater Paris GEIQ supported 172 long-term job seekers through work-based training programmes under apprenticeship or professional development contracts for various positions (form setters and finishers, road and utility network operatives, project supervisors, etc.).
• On the Grand Paris projects, 7% to 10% of VINCI’s employees are part of integration programmes, which is higher than the 5% required by Société du Grand Paris. Chantiers Modernes Construction, the VINCI Construction subsidiary working on the extension of Line 14, exceeded its contractual requirement of 8,700 integration hours by carrying out 23,000 hours in partnership with local Maison de l’Emploi job support centres. For the work to develop three overhead stations for Line 18, 10% of the hours worked will be completed by people on integration programmes, while 20% of the total contract amount will be placed with micro-businesses and SMEs.
• VINCI Autoroutes entrusts certain services to social and solidarity economy organisations, and more than 600 projects were carried out across the network with people on integration programmes through the social integration clauses included in the contracts for each service. Seven percent of the people employed on these projects were from integration programmes, highlighting this business line’s commitment to supporting local employment and integration. On the widening project for the A10 motorway, more than 100,000 integration hours were completed by recruiting 72 people with help from local partners (GEIQ, Pôle Emploi employment agencies, Mission Locale access points for employment and social services).