Key Principles of the HR/Talent Policy.
Values of Publicis Groupe:
Respecting each individual, their differences, skills, and potential.
At the center:
EMPLOYEES – M R C L
Main focus areas:
- Community Initiatives Pro bono campaigns, volunteering, skills sponsorship → Create & Impact
- Share of value Fair remuneration and performance rewards → Career Conversations
- Work-Life Balance Taking into account the different stages of life → Work Your World
- Mental and Physical Health Prevention, support, protection, and assistance → WWC
- Training and Development Advancing in one’s profession, creating new opportunities → MRCL Classes
- Impact & Equity Promoting equal opportunities, fighting all forms of discrimination and harassment → Impact & Equity
The Groupe’s HR General Policies & Rules is the Groupe-wide reference framework and includes the key points behind which countries must align. It incorporates the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact, including articles 1 to 6 on human rights and labor rights. Countries have defined their additional social policies in order to be more precise in their implementation, to take into account legal particularities, and to innovate locally to meet the expectations of employees. The 2024 update focused, among other things, on adequate wage (also known as living wage or decent wage) provisions.
In the Groupe’s Janus Code of Conduct and Ethics, the general HR policy lists the fundamental principles with regard to all employees in terms of human resources and talent management, namely:
1. Respect for the values specific to Publicis is intangible, particularly in terms of respect for each individual, human rights and fundamental freedoms, and their skills and professional and personal potential. These values are based on the history of the Company and its founder, Marcel Bleustein Blanchet, and on the Groupe’s French roots in the philosophical principles around universalism. This means that each and every person must be respected in their uniqueness, whatever it may be and wherever it comes from, and that this applies to everyone, everywhere. This is also what underlies the paramount place given to equity, equal opportunities and meritocracy in the Company. Lastly, the Groupe condemns all forms of forced labor, modern slavery and the use of child labor.
[S1-1-19, S1-1-20 (a) & (b), S1-1-21, S1-1-22]