Areva: interview of Philippe Vivien, Group HR manager, about the European agreement on forecasting and anticipating employment and competences

Philippe Vivien.  No, it doesn’t.  It is our second negotiation around a theme that is complicated and polymorphous.  Our first negotiation was on professional equality and it is true that this first initiative was based on actions carried out in France.  The point was mostly to spread to all European countries actions we had already started implementing.  Besides, there were more  French negotiators, both among unions and management.  This time, we tried to give more power to our German colleagues.  For the management, the German HR manager repeatedly played the part of delegation leader.  We tried to offset the approach so it could add more management modalities and actions carried out in Germany.  The objective wasn’t to “copy paste” the French Employment Observatory to duplicate it in Germany, but to see how, in Germany, we could establish a similar system.