Supporting employee relations

PPR promotes freedom of expression of its employees and dialogue with employee representative bodies. PPR has illustrated this desire with the in-house opinion survey and two forums for dialogue at Group level.

In-house opinion survey: “What’s the weather like?”

Covering each Group’s branch, the “What’s the weather like?” in-house opinion conducted every two years, measures employee satisfaction on the basis of some one hundred questions common to all companies and countries.

These questions concern issues such as work relations, employee commitment, training and personal development, operational organisation and efficiency, management, and even customer focus. Using this survey, managers are able to gather solid quantitative data, define and implement improvements and measure the effectiveness of the action plans set up previously. The PPR commitments are as follows: response confidentiality, performance reporting, implementation of action plans to improve satisfaction and the renewal of the survey every two years.

In October 2007, more than 56,000 employees, in 11 languages and 21 countries, were able to freely express their confidential opinion. Of the employees surveyed, 73% responded.


The Group’s forums for dialogue

- The PPR Group Works Council

Creation date: 1993

Function: the PPR Group Works Council is now the employee representation body for all companies of the Luxury Goods and Retail divisions located in France. Meet in plenary sessions twice a year, its members are informed of the Group's strategies, economic and financial challenges and human resources management actions.

Composition: 24 members (members of the works committee)

 

- The PPR European Works Council (EWC)

Creation date: 2000

 

Function: the PPR European Works Council is an interactive body at a European level. A real cross-border institution, the European Works Council supplements existing national employee representation bodies. Meeting twice a year in a three-day plenary session, the EWC is informed or consulted on any cross-border issues affecting the employees of the Group.

 

Composition: Comprising 20 members and one observer, the European Works Council covers 16 European countries in which the PPR Group Luxury Goods and Retail division companies are located.
News: In 2007, the EWC covered topics such as economic and financial situation, its activities, outlook and strategy, European social indicators and the renewal of the agreement instituting its operation.