ASF - 2002 annual report - Vinci
ASF - 2002 annual report - Vinci
ASF - 2002 annual report - Vinci
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adjustments before the introduction<br />
of the new system, which will<br />
become operational during 2003.<br />
In order to encourage the maintenance<br />
of a good social climate, the<br />
Group is also applying a policy of<br />
constant dialogue with the trade<br />
union organizations and the personnel<br />
representative institutions.<br />
A company-wide agreement concerning<br />
the personnel representative<br />
institutions was signed giving them<br />
additional means.<br />
All the personnel are subject to the<br />
collective bargaining agreement<br />
applicable to “SEMCA”, i.e. semipublic<br />
motorway concession companies.<br />
Many company-wide<br />
agreements complete these<br />
Safety and working conditions<br />
contractual arrangements.<br />
<strong>ASF</strong> has in addition introduced an<br />
early retirement plan which allows<br />
non-executive status employees to<br />
take early retirement from March<br />
<strong>2002</strong>. In return, the company has<br />
undertaken to carry out compensatory<br />
hiring in the form of indefinite<br />
term employment contracts.<br />
The first Group agreement establishing<br />
a Group Partnership Plan for<br />
voluntary employee savings has<br />
been signed.<br />
Further negotiations have also<br />
been undertaken at Group level<br />
with the aim of the signature of<br />
incentive and profit sharing agreements<br />
from financial year 2003 for<br />
all Group companies.<br />
The Group has endeavoured to increase the awareness of its teams to their<br />
own safety. ESCOTA has undertaken a training program, and a certification<br />
booklet has been set up for agents who work on the open motorway,<br />
resulting, via a system of sponsoring, in a reinforcement of the safety culture<br />
of everyone like the operational safety controller existing in <strong>ASF</strong>. A Safety<br />
Manager has also been recruited. His task is more particularly directed<br />
towards the safety of women and men in their daily environment.<br />
The drawing up of this unique document, giving an evaluation of the risks for<br />
the employees’ health and safety, was the occasion for establishing a<br />
detailed assessment of all the potentially dangerous situations. This<br />
document is a valuable working tool to improve the safety of all even further.<br />
A major effort has been made for the safety of agents who have to work on<br />
the open motorway (see p. 44).