Working at Saint Louis Sucre
Working at Saint Louis Sucre means working for a company on a human scale, with all the advantages of the Südzucker group, Europe’s leading sugar producer. Our company offers a wide variety of professions and is committed to developing the skills of the men and women who make up its workforce.
Skills development
Saint Louis Sucre gives a great importance on mastering and developing the skills of its employees.
Training accounts for almost 3% of total payroll.
Multi-year programmes meet technical and technological advances and encourage individual career development. They focus mainly on safety, management and technology, with specific courses for sugar mill/refinery and packaging jobs.
Saint Louis Sucre pays also attention to the development of its employees.
It is based on annual development interviews, and on forward-looking management of jobs and skills.
Particular attention is paid for welcoming new supervisors.
Saint Louis Sucre’s and the Südzucker Group’s integration programmes give them the keys to understand their working environment.
An attractive pay policy
Saint Louis Sucre’s pay policy is based on general increases and individual development, that allows an employee management based on the individual performance.
The average salary at Saint Louis Sucre is €43,800. A significant amount considering that 14% of the company’s employees are managers and 43% are manual and clerical workers. In addition to annual remuneration, the employee also receives profit-sharing and incentive payments.
Salary protection
Saint Louis Sucre offers to all of its employees a high level of social protection.
These include:
Promoting gender equality in the workplace
For the past ten years, Saint Louis Sucre has been signing agreements with its social partners on gender equality in the workplace. In 2009, Saint Louis Sucre was the first sugar company to sign such an agreement. Since 2017, the agreements also include quality of life at work. The agreement is closely monitored and an annual report is examined by the joint committee.
The proportion of women at Saint Louis Sucre continues to rise, from 17.8% in 2008 to 24.6% in 2023. For Saint Louis Sucre, it’s a question of measuring, understanding and taking action: measuring through work to identify discrepancies, understanding where any discrepancies identified come from and taking action to remedy them.
In the same way, Saint Louis Sucre scored 93 points out of 100 in the gender equality index set up by the French Ministry of Labour. Saint Louis Sucre will do its utmost to improve this result.
“We are convinced that the quality of the assignments we carry out depends on the professionalism of each and every one of our employees, and on their personal development.
That’s why we ensure that the skills we offer are suited to our many business lines, and pay particular attention to employability, encouraging internal career paths wherever possible. The working environment also receives special attention, with improvements being made every year. At Saint Louis Sucre, if you feel good about your job and have good working conditions, you’ve already achieved success!
Fabrice Gaussou, HRD Saint Louis Sucre
Social dialogue and communication
Saint Louis Sucre is committed to social dialogue based on respect for individuals and constructive dialogue, and regularly concludes agreements with the company’s trade unions on pay, profit-sharing, incentive schemes and pensions. This social dialogue continues in official bodies such as the Works Councils (Comités Sociaux et Economiques d’Etablissement – CSE) or the Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committees (Commissions Santé, Sécurité et Conditions de Travail – CSSCT).
Saint Louis Sucre’s internal communication policy is based on a desire to exchange information and develop a shared sense of belonging within the company and the group. Internal communication combines permanent media and occasional meetings. In addition to the regular information provided by management and the in-house newspapers of Saint Louis Sucre and the Südzucker group, there are information meetings, posters, memos and electronic communications.
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