Vivendi

Diversity, equal opportunity, and the fight against discrimination in all its forms are characteristic of the Human Resources policies put in place by the group’s business units.

• Universal Music Group
  In the UK, Universal Music Group continues its proactive policy aimed at promoting equal opportunity and treatment for all employees and potential recruits. Through this policy, the company affirms its dedication to diversity and the fight against discrimination, makes numerous commitments in that area, and gets its employees involved in order to make it a daily reality.

• SFR
  Diversity and equal opportunity, particularly regarding disability, are building blocks of SFR’s Human Resources policy. Supported by its Disability mission and the commitment of the trade-union and personnel representatives via a disability agreement, SFR recruited 25 disabled persons in 2008. The previous year, SFR also implemented Handipro professionalisation contracts (as part of the French "Handipro sur site" program), without age limit, enabling disabled persons to acquire training leading to employment qualification in the customer relations field. At the same time, SFR encourages partnerships with companies belonging to the protected sector. In 2008, total earnings with the protected sector reached 1.5 million euros (three times the initial objective of the agreement). Programs to employ seniors and persons living at a distance from employment sites will be added to the disability and gender-parity programs already in place for several years.

• Canal+
  At Canal+, rejection of discrimination is an integral part of the corporate culture and is taken into account in the wage policy and in relationships with personnel representative bodies. In 2008, the topic was placed on the agenda of three Management Board meetings, four Executive Committee meetings, and three Management Committee meetings. On its recruiting website, Canal+ explicitly issues calls for applications from persons of diverse origins and backgrounds. Furthermore, Canal+ has entered into partnerships with public authorities and institutions, temporary-employment agencies, urban communities, and the national employment agency (Pôle Emploi) in order to benefit from support in its policy of recruiting persons of varied backgrounds. Decision-making tools (statistical tools for wages, training, career management, etc.) provide data for conducting that policy and for the group’s HR procedures in general. The diversity of the Canal+ group has been recognised for several years by the Club Averroes, the noted organisation that watches over diversity in the media in France (see the box on page 72 of the 2008 Activity and Sustainable Development Report).