Contribute to the integration of young people and the long-term unemployed
VINCI also seeks to help the long-term unemployed, in particular through its ViE social enterprise. This structure manages almost 1.3 million integration hours annually in France, i.e. half the total number of hours provided in the Group. ViE is committed to sustainable employability and supports Group companies and their partners in implementing the integration clauses associated with their projects, by putting them in touch with local non-profits and specialised structures, in order to build sustainable pathways back into employment. While offering personalised programmes, ViE applies an innovative approach to training centred on soft skills and mapping transferable skills and expertise.
Performance in 2023
Percentage of
women managers
in the Group
2021 : 21.6%
2022 : 22.2%
2023 : 23.1%
Almost
2.5 million hours
of integration work carried out by the Group in France.
7,000 middle school students
hosted under the Give Me Five programme in France.
8,000 young people on work-based training programmes in 2023.
Five social joint ventures created in recent years in France with specialised partners have continued to grow, employing people on social integration contracts in jobs in line with VINCI’s areas of business, such as construction site logistics and maintenance of living facilities and green spaces.
VINCI continued to roll out a vast programme launched in 2018 in France focused on the guidance and employability of young people from priority neighbourhoods identified under city policy. Called Give Me Five, the initiative targets five areas of action: guidance, individual support, integration, employability and learning. Under the programme’s guidance area of action, VINCI hosts middle school students each year in two specific areas of France’s priority education network for guidance and learning about Group businesses either in schools or VINCI sites throughout France (nearly 7,000 in the 2022-2023 school year). Launched in the Greater Paris area and northern and south-eastern France, the personalised support module involved more than 7,000 middle school students in the 2022-2023 school year, in partnership with the non-profits Viens voir mon taf, Crée ton avenir and Unis-Cité. Through this programme, the students also have access to free tutoring.
Develop apprenticeships and build lasting relationships with students
In all countries where VINCI operates, its companies form partnerships with vocational training and higher education establishments by helping build career paths for students from middle school to university level. In France, in partnership with the JobIRL social orientation network, VINCI created a platform in 2021 to help people find training courses related to the Group’s businesses and work-based training programmes at its companies. At the apprenticeship
and work-based training student fair organised by L’Étudiant, an online media outlet and higher education resource, in Paris, Lyon, Nantes and Toulouse, nearly 2,000 young people visited the VINCI stand to meet with potential recruiters and young people currently on work-based training programmes at Group companies, to help them build their apprenticeship plan. In 2023, almost 8,000 young people were involved in work-based training within the Group.
Act to promote inclusion and diversity
VINCI seeks to foster equal opportunity and prevent all forms of discrimination in its businesses, in line with the commitments set out in its Manifesto. To ensure the practical application of this policy, the Group has created a network of inclusion and diversity coordinators totalling 569 active members.
VINCI is committed to promoting gender diversity, especially in management. The percentage of women in management positions was 23.1% in 2023 (25.7% in France). The Group has set a goal to increase both the percentage of women in management positions and the percentage of women members on the Group’s management committees to 30% by 2030. The gender equality index, which has been extended internationally, provides companies with a common set of indicators to assess equal pay and promotion policies.
In March 2023, a Web TV channel created to mark International Women’s Day gave VINCI employees around the world the opportunity to present their day-to-day experience of gender diversity challenges, as well as their actions to enhance the fulfilment of people at VINCI. On Up!, the Group’s online learning platform, the catalogue of training courses on diversity and inclusive management was expanded with a new module on how to combat everyday sexism. It is freely available to all employees. In January 2023, the Executive Committee devoted a meeting to the obstacles gender equality faces from everyday sexism.
Jocelyne Vassoille, VINCI’s Vice-President for Human Resources is the honorary president of the non-profit Elles Bougent. A partner to the organisation since 2018, VINCI is its largest network of sponsors and correspondents, with nearly 740 employees worldwide engaged in actions to remove gender bias from scientific and technical professions. VINCI maintained a concerted policy to support the employment of people with disabilities, implemented across three fronts:
- Job retention: the organisation Trajeo’h supported more than 1,100 people with disabilities in 2023 (8,100 since 2014) into a new career path either within or outside the Group.
- Recruitment primarily through the in-house recruitment consultancy Habileo’h, created in 2021.
- Use of sheltered companies: the work outsourced to the sheltered sector totalled revenue of €9.6 million in 2023. Group entities are aided in this approach by the Supplyeo’h platform.