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Fostering diversity

EDF has signed the Diversity Charter. We are committed to a broad spectrum of initiatives promoting diversity and equal opportunities. Demographically diverse, we benefit from and champion the diversity of background, experiences, and career paths among our workforce.
Around one hundred disabled people benefit from training and support in accessing jobs with through work-study contracts.

Supporting our diversity efforts, we have formalized a number of collective agreements. These aim to:
  • Encourage the full integration of persons with disabilities
  • Promote gender equality
  • Expand training to provide career-long support.

For the last two years, EDF has held an annual Diversity Day to provide information to employees about diversity.

In 2008, our Group's commitment to and accomplishments in the field of professional equality were recognized with an Equality Award (Label Egalité), presented by the French Ministry of Social Cohesion and Equality (Ministère français de la Cohésion Sociale et de la Parité).

Persons with disabilities

In France, as part of the framework of the 2009-2012 Corporate Social Responsibility Agreement with the unions, EDF pledged that 4% of our annual recruitment would comprise persons with disabilities. This commitment covers all the Group's divisions, including Engineering, Customers, and IT.

We support people with disabilities throughout their professional careers. Since 2006, more than 100 employees with disabilities have benefited from training and support in accessing jobs from EDF as part of a combined work-study contract.

Finally, EDF and ERDF have created a voluntary initiative that seeks to engage several dozens of young people with disabilities each year by offering apprenticeships and access to vocational training.

Gender equality

EDF's gender equality efforts are centered on six core values:
  • Lasting changes in mindset
  • Gender diversity in hiring and employment
  • Equality of opportunity in professional career paths
  • Equal access to professional development and training
  • Consideration for working hours
  • Working conditions and work/life balance.
EDF is also committed to reducing the salary gap between men and women. We are increasingly opening up the nuclear sector to women, and are rewarding their progress, particularly through the Fem'Energia Award (French content).

Bringing skills to young people

We offer unskilled young people the tools, training, and support to plan a route into professional work.

EDF and ERDF are currently employing more than 3,400 young people on combined work-study contracts, including apprenticeships and vocational training schemes. These contracts account for an impressive 3% of the company's workforce.

Employees over 50

We have implemented an adapted recruitment program that benefits employees over the age of 50 by giving priority to the long-term unemployed through assisted contracts.

Taking a closer look