Since July 2009 all 50,000 CLECE employees have benefited from the firm’s new Equality Plan. The agreement gives shape to CLECE policy on this matter with measures to guarantee the principle of equal treatment and equal opportunities between men and women. In a similar initiative CLECE’s subsidiary company Multiservicios Aeroportuarios (in which Iberia also has a stake) has just subscribed to its own Equality Plan.
7 April 2010.- The CLECE Plan is an accurate reflection of the company’s current situation, as a gender diagnosis study was first carried out analysing the firm’s staff of around 50,000 people, using both quantitative and qualitative approaches and people management processes. The results were used to determine areas of improvement and establish specific objectives and actions for six key focus points.
Among other measures, the Plan provides for the principle of effective equality between men and women in their access to work and professional training, doing away with all gender-based policies or procedures of discrimination in terms of selection, hiring and training. It also adopts measures aimed at encouraging female access to employment where they are currently underrepresented, and helps to find work for women that have suffered gender-based violence, and to make sure that all staff are made aware of the labour rights of these women.
The company has also implemented a procedure to prevent, detect and act in situations of sexual harassment by establishing a series of appropriate protocols to follow. An Equality Commission, created for this purpose, continually monitors the actions defined in the Plan.
Multiservicios Aeroportuarios joins the commitment
With the Plan of its parent company as a precedent, Multiservicios Aeroportuarios (a company in which Iberia also has a stake) has signed its own Equality Plan with trade unions. The company has around 2,180 members of staff, 86.9% of whom are women, and has set out its main objectives, including securing greater representation for women in sectors where they are under represented.
Both agreements give shape to the equal opportunity policy followed by CLECE.