RATP, the urban transport operator employing 65,000 people, is experimenting with new measures, including the four-day week, new working rhythms and the deployment of exoskeletons in maintenance workshops. Formalised in an agreement on quality of life at work signed on 21 February, the aim of this push is to improve working conditions, meet employees' aspirations in terms of work-life balance and improve its employer brand.
The three-year agreement signed on 21 February 2024 (attached) between RATP management and three trade unions representative at the company (FO, CFE-CGC and UNSA) introduces a number of experiments designed to meet the “many new expectations of employees that have emerged in particular as a result of the health crisis”. Through this text, they wish to “give a new impetus to their commitment to promote employees’ quality of life and working conditions”, to give meaning back to work and to reinforce the attractiveness of certain arduous professions.
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Nathalie Tran
Editor-in-Chief Mind HR