A disabilities policy that is achieving its goals

Disabilities are a major part of THOM’s diversity policy. The Group’s three objectives when it comes to disabilities were to confront prejudices, welcome more diverse employees, and allow people with disabilities to flourish in the long term within THOM. Those three objectives are in the process of becoming concrete.

The Group’s employment rate of disabled people went from 0.77% to over 2.5% in 2 years, thanks to a voluntary action plan aimed at:

• Training all Store managers on the equality of opportunity (training day, e-learning modules…), training disability advisors, and training staff representation bodies.
• Raising awareness for all employees by actively participating in Disability Week (awareness events, creating a comic strip, lectures, inter-company charity challenges to support the Fédération française handisport, etc.).
• Structuring processes by signing a new agreement with representative unions that provides real progress for disabled employees (insurance coverage and universal employment services cheques [CESU], end-of-career arrangements, etc.).
• Supporting more than sixty disabled employees (assistance in obtaining disability recognition, workstation accessibility, etc.).
• Recruiting people with disabilities for internships, fixed-term, and permanent contracts.

In 2024, THOM renewed its Disabilities Mission for 3 more years.