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European Agreement on Social Commitments in the framework of the take-over of Areva T&D

Companies

Alstom and Schneider Electric

Date of signature

07 May 2010

Signatories

Chief of Human Resources Officer of Alstom, Executive Vice-President Human Resources of Schneider Electric, Deputy General Secretary of the European Metalworkers’ Federation

Key objectives

""The Presidents of Alstom and Schneider groups […], have taken precise social commitments concerning the evolution of employment in the T and D activity when it is taken over and integrated into each of the two groups […].
The purpose of this agreement is to list the commitments, provide additional detail and specify their scope, duration and follow-up procedure.""

Duration

Indefinite

Applicable law

Not defined

Implementation and dissemination

Review and monitoring

Monitoring:
“The signing parties agreed to meet once a year to ensure that this Agreement is followed up at European level.
They agreed that the implementation procedure of this Agreement will be specifically followed up by the Alstom and Schneider Electric groups, within the meetings of their European Works Councils, and country by country, within their respective social instances. […]”

Dispute settlement and sanctions

Related texts

Areva European Agreement on Equal Opportunities (2006)
Schneider Electric European Agreement on Anticipation of Change (2007)

Main topic

Transfert,

Secondary topic(s)

social dialogue, job security.

Download:
Alstom-Schneider_SocialCommittments_EN.pdf