The Company has initiated a four-pillar action plan aimed at transforming the Company's diversity landscape by 2026.
It includes comprehensive anti-discrimination and unconscious bias training, establishing a community of role models, enhancing recruitment from diverse origins, and promoting employees from diverse backgrounds, especially women.
On 5 February 2024, Sanofi unveiled "Cancer and Work: Acting Together," a comprehensive global programme to support employees diagnosed with cancer or other serious illnesses.
This initiative ensures job security, salary continuation, and social benefits for at least twelve months, regardless of the employee's role or location, marking a significant step forward in corporate responsibility and employee welfare.
On 11 July 2023, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released the Employment Outlook 2023, which shows the latest labour market developments in OECD countries.
It focuses on wage developments and the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the labour market (an OECD first-ever study in this area).
Assuming an imminent technological revolution that could radically change the workplace, the report states that there are no signs of slowing labour demand, in the short-term, but possible changes in job quality and tasks.
EU Member States have drawn up a new framework agreement to regulate cross-border teleworkers' social security position.
This agreement clarifies which conditions workers working in another Member State other than the one in which their employer’s premises can still be covered under the employer’s country social security system.
It enters into force from 1 July 2023, for a period of 5 years and shall be automatically extended each time for another 5 years.
To date, the Member States that have either signed the agreement, or have indicated they will sign, are Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Slovakia, Ireland, Lithuania, Estonia, Norway, Malta, Portugal, and Poland.
Decree 493/21, published in the Official Gazette on 6 August 2021, provides for a benefit of reduction of an employer's social security contributions for the case of new hiring of personnel who participate, or have participated, in Educational, Vocational Training or Labour Intermediation Programs of the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security.
The decree became effective on 1 September 2021, applying to labour relationships that begin during the following 12 months.