Michelin: European framework agreement on CSR signed with the EWC

This agreement, negotiated with the extended EWC bureau and validated by the plenary body, was signed on March 26.  This CSR agreement contains commitments to comply with international standards, as well as more detailed provisions on equal opportunities, the organization of labor and health and safety.  Characterized by the company’s situation, which signed in recent months agreements arranging working conditions to improve competitiveness in a few European countries, the agreement supervises and implements negotiations for future “reactivity agreements.”
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Equality and non discrimination. This agreement is included in the scope of the tire maker’s EWC (14 countries) and will run for 3 years, after which will may be tacitly renewed for 2 years. It contains a special charter on equal opportunities, non-discrimination, the organization of labor and health and safety. Regarding the fight against discrimination, the tire maker commits itself to raising awareness and training recruiters and managers to identify discriminatory practices and implement ways to stop them, and to set up internal audits to ensure that the procedures implemented by the personnel service are not discriminatory.

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