France: agreement on professional equality to attract and retain staff signed at electricity network operator RTE

On 2 April 2025, the management of French company RTE, which has 10,000 employees, and the CFDT, CFE-CGC and FO trade unions signed a fourth agreement on professional equality. It sets targets for increasing the proportion of women holding jobs at the company, introduces a referral bonus for hiring women and strengthens measures to support parents. With the workforce still largely male, these measures are important for the attractiveness of the publicly owned company, which needs to recruit heavily in the coming years.

By Antoine Piel. Published on 15 May 2025 à 16h47 - Update on 15 May 2025 à 16h47

The French electricity transmission operator RTE, like EDF’s other subsidiary Enedis, is facing unprecedented recruitment needs as the sector struggles to meet the demands of the energy transition. The company’s workforce is expected to grow from 10,000 to 11,600 employees by 2030. The agreement, signed four years on from the previous edition, which introduced extended family leave and offered support to victims of domestic violence, this time focuses on gender equality. It comes at a time when the Trump administration in the US is pressuring international companies to suspend their diversity policies, with German software publisher SAP having recently announced that it is suspending its gender equality targets.…

Antoine Piel

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