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employees with disabilities,
3% of the global workforce
promoting social dialogue, diversity and respect
forfundamentalrightsatwork.
Encouraging diversity at all levels
With teams comprising57.6%women, Carrefour
is a group motivated to provide professional
gender equality. Behind this number, there
nevertheless hide real disparities, particularly in
access to management positions. That’s why
in 2013 Carrefour showed its commitment by
signing on to the United Nations Women’s
Empowerment Principles, which were extended
tonewcountries,fromBraziltoItaly.
Carrefour's commitment to these principles is
demonstrated through the Women Leaders
programme, promoted by the Group on a global
scale since 2011. Through recruitment, training,
mentoring, working-time arrangements and
awareness-raising, it has helped increase
the proportion of women managers by nearly
Through its widespread defence of solidarity
and diversity, Carrefour plays a leading role
in helping minorities and those who are
discriminated against. Aside from the attention
given to these issues during employee recruit-
ment, there are many proactive initiatives in
place among the various Group entities world-
widetooffertheircommitmenttomulti-cultural
and multi-ethnic equality, which reflects the
world around them and the customers that
trust in them. Carrefour relies in particular on
social dialogue in order to implement concrete,
targeted action plans in specific locations and
toguaranteethesamerightstoeveryone.
For example, in 2015 Carrefour renewed the
agreement concerning professional equality
applicable in French supermarkets and signed
the first agreement on this issue for the logistics
division. The Group also signed a new agree-
mentwith theUNI (UnionNetwork International)
Ensuring equal opportunity
and diversity
Recruitment, training, professionalisation, internal promotions,
andmore: Carrefour places equal opportunity and the fight against
all forms of discriminationat the coreof its socialmodel.
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