After the claim made by the European trade unions present within EDF's EWC in favor of wage increases, it is now GDF-Suez's turn to request a "more ambitious social policy enable a fairer share of the profits resulting from the labor of the 170.000 employees of the group." This declaration - unusual for a European structure - was read during the council's meeting on November 19, 2008. (Ref. 080918)
“With a turnover and an EBITDA increasing of almost 20% compared to
2007, the group can and should carry out a much more ambitious social policy to
lead to a fairer share of the profits resulting from the labor of the 170.000
employees of the group” reads the declaration read during the November 19 EWC. EWC
members point to the “spectacular increase in managers’ income,” the “short-term
unfreezing of stock-options of the 8.000 highest salaries of the group” and the
“€1.7 billion in advance from
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