ViE helps VINCI companies and external firms implement their integration clauses, and puts them in touch with local stakeholders, such as non-profits, social enterprises supporting integration programmes and structures helping people return to work, in order to enable people covered by integration measures to find stable employment and benefit from ongoing support. The ViE network has strong local links, working with 500 national integration structures (social enterprises, temporary employment agencies, etc.) and 250 organisations linked to local and regional authorities (Mission Locale access points for employment and social services, Pôle Emploi employment agencies, etc.). In 2023, 578 businesses benefited from its advice and expertise and more than 46,500 hours of training were provided. To help build the skills of individuals benefiting from its social integration programmes, ViE is committed to extending their periods of employment with Group companies.
Activity of VINCI Insertion Emploi (ViE)
| non-inclus |
2023 |
2022 |
2021 |
2023/2022 change |
| Number of people benefiting from social integration measures |
2,700 |
2,735 |
2,997 |
-1,3% |
| Number of hours of integration employment |
1,261,930 |
1,217,200 |
1,099,000 |
+3,7% |
| Number of hours of training |
46,500 |
41,008 |
41,669 |
+13.4% |
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 two actions were developed in 2023:
- In the Hauts-de-France region of northern France, more than 44,000 integration hours were completed thanks to ViE’s actions in connection with work by Adim Hauts-de-France and Sogea Caroni (Building France Division, VINCI Construction) to build and fit out the new headquarters for the Nord department, one of five in this region. A total of 120 people on integration programmes were deployed on this project, including 48 beneficiaries of the active solidarity income (RSA). This support helped meet the following goals:
- skills development for future employees on integration programmes, through work-based training as part of their professional development;
- recruitment, by transforming social integration clauses into recruitment opportunities, with a permanent contract signed as part of this project for a position as a tiler, thereby helping to fulfil the subcontractor’s recruitment needs;
- facilitating the process of joining operational teams for employees on integration programmes, by offering them an adapted onboarding process, remaining attentive to their needs and helping them develop their technical skills.
- In the Pays de la Loire region, ViE mobilised inclusive structures and stakeholders to raise awareness of VINCI’s business lines among opinion leaders and potential candidates, as part of the project involving VINCI Construction and VINCI Energies companies in France to build seven of the 13 buildings within the new Nantes university hospital complex. Site visits were organised by ViE to offer future VINCI employees the opportunity to immerse themselves in the Group’s business activities.
In addition to managing social clause aspects, ViE creates support systems that enable companies to build and develop a strategy for social responsibility actions. For example, ViE helps companies develop their inclusive purchasing policy with very small businesses and SMEs, as well as social and solidarity economy (SSE) organisations, such as social enterprises (EA) and sheltered workshops (Esat) that specifically employ people with disabilities, at the heart of communities.
Lastly, ViE mobilises its local network to help secure recruitment and integration pathways. In 2023, ViE supported a number of collective recruitment projects for various roles, from pavers and building equipment electricians to fire protection fitters, train drivers and engineering and design office technicians.
- Professional integration and guidance for young people
The Give Me Five programme, created, funded and implemented by VINCI, was launched in 2018 to provide guidance and support the professional integration of young people from priority neighbourhoods as defined by urban policy in France. This programme is structured around five areas of action:
- Guidance: Working closely with the French Ministry of National Education, VINCI supported around 7,000 middle school students in the 2022-2023 academic year through career guidance and job discovery days at VINCI sites, as well as in schools across 10 local education authority areas.
- Individual support: Since the start of the 2020 school year, a personalised support programme has been rolled out in the Greater Paris area as well as the Hauts-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions. In partnership with three non-profit organisations – Viens voir mon taf, Crée ton avenir and Unis-Cité – VINCI organises workshops to provide guidance in schools and supports the deployment of training programmes to accompany teachers in charge of providing careers advice. In 2023, more than 7,000 middle school students benefited from this initiative. The Boost online academic tutoring initiative, funded exclusively by VINCI, was launched in 2021 for the children of all employees in France and the various French-speaking countries where the Group operates. To date, more than 8,000 children of Group employees have benefited from this programme. Since 2022, all the middle school students benefiting from the Give Me Five programme have also had free access to it.
- Integration: Working closely in France with Mozaik RH, a sourcing consultancy specialised in diversity and inclusion, VINCI helps open up opportunities for meetings and exchanges between the business world, recruiters and students living in priority neighbourhoods, from those enrolled in high school vocational courses to those pursuing master’s programmes. In 2023, more than 10 recruitment days and meetings were organised throughout the country.
- Employability: With the teams from VINCI Insertion Emploi (ViE), VINCI is jointly leading the deployment of an employability programme in France to help secure a return to stable employment for young people under the age of 26 living in priority neighbourhoods. The educational approach for the regional employment strategy, under the name “Stratégie territoriale pour l’emploi” (Step), is built around the action learning principle, which encourages problem-solving, critical thinking and autonomy while carrying out a team project before a company immersion phase. This approach helps develop the technical skills of these young people who are struggling to access stable employment, while also strengthening their interpersonal and organisational skills.
- Learning: This fifth component of the Give Me Five programme was launched in 2021 as a means for VINCI to continue building on its robust approach to recruiting young apprentices. Through its initiative “Apprenticeships: VINCI is all in!”, the aim is to mobilise general, technological and vocational middle schools and high schools in priority neighbourhoods throughout France.
