The EWC must be consulted for certain disposals or acquisitions of companies or if the Group deploys a new strategy with major potential impacts on employment and its organisation. In 2025, the EWC was invited to deliberate on the acquisition of FM Conway in the United Kingdom and EnergoBit in Romania. Following the acquisition of Edinburgh airport, which the EWC had deliberated on in 2024, a delegation visited the site in 2025 to engage with local trade unions, management and employees. The EWC intends to apply this same approach for other significant acquisitions in the future.
The European Works Council is also organised around a Bureau, which meets four times a year. During these meetings, the representatives discuss the Group’s latest developments with management, as well as its workforce-related and economic data, its disposals and acquisitions, and its health and safety results.
The EWC has established supra-legal working groups with select committees to develop positions on the issues identified by them in coordination with management. Four select committee meetings were held in 2025 to continue moving forward with discussions on the theme of sustainable employability, from the perspective of career paths and the employee experience within VINCI: onboarding, training, career development, skills management, mobility, changes in activities, knowledge transfer, end-of-career issues and life events.
To ensure that EWC members are properly informed and trained on ESG issues and to involve them in implementing related measures taken by the Group, a dedicated committee was created in 2018. It meets at least twice a year to discuss issues relating to safety, the Group’s environmental ambition and its social responsibility. In 2025, its work focused in particular on new tools linked to AI, as well as health and safety issues.
Three-day training sessions are available every year for EWC members. In 2025, these sessions covered various aspects, including dust and fine particles, as well as mental health. As every year, during each of these training sessions, the Group also held a hybrid meeting to share ideas and discuss issues relating to VINCI Manifesto commitments. Progress updates were presented and discussed concerning the implementation of the CSRD, as well as advances with the Group’s environmental ambition, particularly with regard to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the approach to social and human rights risk prevention.
The EWC and, since 2025, the Group Works Council each designate from among their members a director representing employees to serve on the Group’s Board of Directors.
Although no quantified targets have been set, the VINCI Group monitors the effectiveness of social dialogue through a range of indicators, including:
Number of collective agreements signed in Group companies worldwide in 2025: 1,843, of which the following relating to:
| Collective bargaining coverage | Social dialogue | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage rate | Employees – EEA (for countries with more than 50 employees representing over 10% of the total workforce | Employees – non-EEA (estimation for regions with more than 50 employees representing over 10% of the total workforce) | Workplace representation – EEA (for countries with more than 50 employees representing over 10% of the total workforce) |
| 0%-19% | - | - | - |
| 20%-39% | - | - | - |
| 40%-59% | - | - | - |
| 60%-79% | - | Central and South America | - |
| 80%-100% | France | - | France |
France is the only country in which the Group operates that accounts for over 10% of the total workforce.
In 2025, employee absences due to strikes totalled 14,506 days worldwide, of which 6,174 days in France, out of a total of 69 million days worked in the year (compared with 11,090 days and 6,209 days respectively, out of 66 million days worked in 2024).
