Alstom signs a new agreement for jobs and skills planning

The agreement seeks first to anticipate changes in jobs and
skills and to use the entire range of relevant planning
instruments, including training, promotion, internal and
external mobility, as well as recent methods such as individual
training entitlements and mobility leave.

To support this agreement, Alstom has also set up an
innovative, end-of-career work time management system,
combining gradual work reduction and the settlement of the
time savings account.

The gradual work reduction allows working time to be
adjusted during the two years prior to retirement, on the basis
of 80% work time in the first year, and 50% in the second.

Any employee wishing to take up this option can cash in
their time savings account at the end of the work reduction
period. This allows both the employee and the enterprise to
prepare for retirement under the best possible conditions.

For line workers, the system includes the addition of bonus
points to their time savings account for hardship
jobs (welder, boilermaker, painter, shot-blast operator, and
night shift work).

The agreement also includes provisions for mentoring,
already established in the January 2006 agreement that will be
further developed to facilitate the transfer of skills to newly
hired employees, especially under apprenticeship schemes.

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Alstom has about 15,000 employees in France
Alstom has 14,700 employees in France (as of 31 December 2008)
working in 17 sites. Engineers and managers make up nearly half
(7,000) of this population, while there are 4,800 technicians,
supervisors and employees, and about 2,800 line workers. Alstom
Transport has approximately 8,400 employees and Alstom Power
employs 5,500. In terms of geography, 5,500 people work in the
Ile-de-France area, 5,400 in the east and north of France,
1,900 in the southeast, and the same number again in the west
and southwest of France.

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