Orange: global agreement on making gender equality a priority within the Orange group

On 17 July Orange together with the international services union federation Uni Global, and the Orange Union Alliance (that brings together union organizations represented within the Orange group, c.f. article No. 070469) signed its third global agreement ‘promoting workplace gender equality, combatting discrimination and violence, and promoting work-life balance.’ This new agreement seeks to ensure occupational gender equality, tackle discrimination and violence, and promote work-life balance especially by way of structured social dialogue at local level which should ‘allow local reviews to be drawn up and adapted action plans to be defined.’ 149,000 Orange employees will be covered by this agreement
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Mobilizing social dialogue in order to attain objectives. The agreement holds that social dialogue is essential for securing results. This is why the document commences with a commitment to develop ‘constructive and high-quality social dialogue’, on the issues it meets in terms of equality, combatting discrimination, violence and work-life balance. All entities within the Orange group have to ensure that union organizations and/or personnel representatives, depending on local practice, are invo

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