Orange signs a global Group agreement on workplace gender equality with UNI Global Union

Through this agreement, Orange underlines its firm commitment to workplace gender equality on a global scale. It follows on from two global agreements on fundamental rights and on health and safety signed in 2006 and 2014 respectively by the Orange Group and UNI Global Union. It covers all 149,000 Orange employees worldwide.

The agreement is flexible and can be suitably adapted to the countries where the Orange Group operates. The objective of the agreement is to support workplace gender equality and a positive work-life balance, and to combat discrimination and violence across the Group. This agreement is implemented through a participative initiative involving all stakeholders, including a structured social dialogue, notably with the creation of dedicated local committees. A shared review and the definition of action plans adapted to the local context will be tracked over time in collaboration with employee representatives, again reflecting Orange Group’s desire to implement a long-term initiative.

About Orange

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 41 billion euros in 2018 and 149,000 employees worldwide at 31 March 2019, including 90,000 employees in France. The Group has a total customer base of 264 million customers worldwide at 31 March 2019, including 204 million mobile customers and 20 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 27 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies, under the brand Orange Business Services. In March 2015, the Group presented its new strategic plan “Essentials2020” which places customer experience at the heart of its strategy with the aim of allowing them to benefit fully from the digital universe and the power of its new generation networks.

Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN).

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The agreement’s signatories are: Valérie Le Boulanger, Executive Director of Group Human Resources; Christine Albanel, Senior Executive Vice-President of Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity, Partnerships and Philanthropy; Alke Boessiger, Deputy General Secretary of UNI Global Union; William Coker, Chair of the UNI Global Union-Orange Alliance (which brings together all union organisations that are members of the UNI Global Union within Orange); and representatives of French union organisations affiliated to UNI Global Union.

“I am delighted that our workplace equality policy is based on ambitious social dialogue, to sustainably reinforce our actions in Group countries to benefit the women and men at Orange,” stated Valérie Le Boulanger, Executive Director of Group Human Resources.

Christine Albanel, Senior Executive Vice-President of Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity, Partnerships and Philanthropy, continued: “by making our commitment to workplace gender equality a global undertaking, this agreement marks a new milestone in the Group’s social and societal commitment.”