Alstom: interview of Patrick Dubert and Noël Huret, respectively HR manager and IR manager of the Group, on the European agreement on the anticipation of change

Patrick Dubert.  We feel there are three sides to this agreement.  First, the organization of dialogue on evolutions, preparing the future both at European and at national/local level.  Secondly, the point is also to see how we can better manage the careers of all the collaborators, not only for engineers and executives, but also technicians and blue-collar workers, like the forward-looking management of employment and skills systems we have in France for instance.  Thirdly, the point is to deal with complicated situations and see how we can do our best when we have to adapt organizations and their workforce, with a single reference wherever it takes place in Europe.  Finally, a transverse issue: once dialogue is organized at European level, it can be organized at local level, and the two levels complement and fuel each other.
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ves, but also technicians and blue-collar workers, like the forward-looking management of employment and skills systems we have in France for instance. Thirdly, the point is to deal with complicated situations and see how we can do our best when we have to adapt organizations and their workforce, with a single reference wherever it takes place in Europe. Finally, a transverse issue: once dialogue is organized at European level, it can be organized at local level, and the two levels complement

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