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.
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...
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Antoine Piel
Section Head at Mind HR