The Group signs a European Charter on Teleworking

The development of teleworking, which is part of the Group’s Smart Working project, responds to  matters shared accross European entities, whether in terms of attractiveness, retention, mobility or work-life balance.

A common European framework

In this context , the representatives of the European Trade Union Federations, a delegation of the European Works Council and the management of BNP Paribas have expressed the wish that teleworking should developed and strengthened within a common framework for the Group in Europe, whenever this way of organising work is possible and agreed upon by the entity’s management. This common framework, defined through negotiation, has been formalised in a European Charter on Teleworking.

A charter applicable in 22 countries

This charter applies in the 22 countries covered by the BNP Paribas European Committee and concerns more than 132,000 employees. In concrete terms, regardless of the entity and the country where these 132,000 people work, they all benefit from the same general principles, namely:

• implementation of teleworking based on a collective team approach;

• compliance with the principle of double volunteering, expressed by both the employee and the manager, allowing everyone to choose whether or not to telework;

• possibility of permanent reversibility, at the initiative of the employee or the manager, depending in particular on major personal or operational constraints;

• maximum rate of 50% of working time to be spent remotely, combined with a minimum of one day of on-site presence per week (excluding holiday periods);

• full-day teleworking, with periodic rotation in the choice of days to preserve equity within the teams;

• participation in the cost of teleworking and/or meals for regular teleworking, according to at least one of the methods defined;

• a place for teleworking which remains in principle that of the employee’s main residence.