06/01/2011
BNP Paribas SA appoints a referent for professional equality
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As a part of its struggle against discrimination and promoting diversity, BNP Paribas SA on 5 January announced the appointment of Bernard Villatoux as referent for professional equality. The group thus establishes a nationwide facility for examining individual cases of employees who claim that they have been discriminated against in their professional situation, and whose position is therefore not satisfied, at the discretion of the Human Resources office of the management firm concerned. Villatoux, who was appointed head of Individual Group Careers Management after the merger of BNP Paribas, in 2007 became head of the Human Recources Management, Leadership and Services Group. “The policy of BNP Paribas in relation to diversity within the business is a part of a global desire to play an important role in favour of insertion, equal opportunity and the struggle against all forms of discrimination,” BNP Paribas says in a statement. In France, BNP Paribas signed the Diversity Charter in 2004, and was one of the first seven French businesses to receive the Diversity label in 2009.
