Belgium : ten companies received the first labels “Equality-Diversity”

The federal ministers of Employment and Equality of Chances, Peter Vanvelthoven and Christian Dupont, gave, on March 23, 2007, the first "Equality-Diversity" labels to ten companies which set up a volunteer policy in terms of diversity. (Ref. 070274)
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The first ten companies to have received this label are: Sodexho, Randstand, SCNB, the city of Leuven, Ethias, the Federal Police, Boulot, Age d’Or Services, Crioc and Center Parcs Belgium. The pilot project Label Equality Diversity, which was launched in September 2006, was addressed to large as well as small businesses, to the private and public sectors, or even to the associative sphere. Fifteen companies in total voluntarily signed up for this experimentation. To get this label, they had to

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