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Since January 2022 and for the next 5 years, L’Uzyne is a partner of Sport dans la ville, a non-profit organization devoted to youth integration in the workforce through sports by accompanying them in their personal and social growth.

Because our operations help create over 1400 student contracts every year and that sport is an intrinsic part of our DNA, we thought we needed to go further by personally committing to the organization in order to:

• Facilitate recruitment at L’Uzyne for our clients’ and partners’ operations.
• Support the organization through patronage, namely by accompanying it in front of its partners.
• Support the development of Sport dans la ville actions to favor social and professional integration of youth from underprivileged neighborhoods where the organization intervenes, through financial contribution.

This partnership allows for our project to transform our modes of collaboration and durably impact the sector. With Sport dans la ville, fleeting actions turn into fully grown career projects!

Launched in July 2000, the UN’s Global Compact is the most important international voluntary engagement initiative in terms of sustainability, gathering over 13 000 participants across 170 countries.

The companies and non-profit organizations have a crucial part to play in building more stable, inclusive and sustainable businesses. Their stakeholders (employees, clients, providers and contractors) are more and more vigilant when it comes to leading by example and show responsibility in Global Compact’s key areas, in their strategies and operations.

We answered the call, and for our first year of adherence, we’ve chosen to further our actions on 2 out of the 4 GC themes: work and environment standards.

First, some actions are almost a prerequisite today: sort waste. Really. Recycling, changing classic light bulbs to LED ones, installing motion sensor lights… All those little tricks that have become obvious to us and that we gladly share with our partners and clients.

In the key issues, there’s also the fight for mixity, diversity and salary ethics. On those topics, we’ve made a few resolutions: favor mixity of profiles and equity, limit fixed-term contracts across the agency and set gap indexes between the highest and lowest salary from 1 to 10 maximum. Because some things just aren’t negociable.

To take this further, and grow together, we’ve unanimously decided to create a right to disconnect chart. Because it’s great to love your work, but evenings and weekends are made to be enjoyed. We also had a security audit, to make sure that the only thing you risk working with us, is to feel at home. We’ve also installed electric charging stations to carry on our collaborators’ initiatives, because good ideas shouldn’t be denied entry.

Is that it? Well for now it is, because it is a full-time commitment that requires engagement and energy. And because good things take time. Will we do more? Obviously. Because adhering to programs like the UN’s Global Compact means changing paradigm and habits forever.