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Encouraging commitment

Created in 2007, the Monitoring Center for Quality of Life in the Workplace allows us to maintain a balance between our commitment to organizational excellence and the drive to provide our workforce, stakeholders, and service providers with truly excellent and inclusive working conditions.
Through the Sustainable Development Awards,
EDF recognizes outstanding initiatives undertaken by the Group's employees.

Quality of life in the workplace

The Center monitors five key areas to analyze and assess improvements implemented in the working environment:
  1. Occupational safety and health
  2. Internal organization and the working environment
  3. Management
  4. Workplace relations and communication
  5. Relations across the hierarchy and work/life balance

EDF's major operating divisions in France, Customers and Generation, are working with employee representatives to launch initiatives aimed at improving quality of life in the workplace and minimizing psychological risks and occupational hazards.

Occupational safety and health

The Group excels in an industry that involves the most sophisticated technology and a high degree of risk: ensuring the health and safety of our employees and service providers is of paramount importance.

As just one example of our strict standards, the implementation of EDF's occupational safety and workplace health policy in France is audited by a national committee for direction and monitoring.

To further improve safety, we have been stepping up our risk-prevention efforts and safety training, targeting EDF service providers in particular. As a result, EDF's low rate of workplace-related accidents makes us one of the safest electricity utilities in Europe.

In 2008, a collective agreement negotiated with employee representatives established a national council for occupational health, with a membership comprising both union and representatives of different businesses, as well as occupational medical practitioners and a number of health, safety, and workplace committees (Comités d'Hygiène de Sécurité et des Conditions de Travail - CHSCTs).

Uniting around sustainable development

The EDF Sustainable Development Awards
Our Sustainable Development Awards encourage and support the involvement of Group employees in environmental, social, energy conservation, and awareness-raising initiatives.
These awards recognize the exemplary work of thousands of staff members in promoting sustainable development. Each year, 20 winners receive financial assistance and dedicated salaried hours to allow them to implement or continue their projects. All winners are encouraged to draw on the Group's deep bench of skills and expertise.



Employee profit-sharing and sustainable development objectives
EDF's employee profit-sharing scheme is calculated, in part, from six performance criteria linked to sustainable development and one or more related objectives:

  • Three environmental criteria
  • One ethics criterion
  • Two social criteria.

Our company compensation package

To attract, motivate, and retain the top talent, EDF has developed a comprehensive company compensation package that integrates best practices as observed in comparable sectors.



This package includes:

  • Recognition of individual responsibilities and results obtained, assessed through the salary policy
  • Recognition of Group performance through employee profit-sharing
  • Employee retirement schemes and employer contributions
  • Employee shareholding scheme (as of January 30, 2009, EDF employees have owned 2.27% of the Group’s equity)
  • Additional employee benefits.

Taking a closer look