Diversity and inclusion at SNCF Réseau

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SNCF Réseau is committed to ensuring that all its employees, whatever their gender, origin or state of health, feel good in the company.

Meeting the challenge of gender diversity in our technical activities

Society is changing, and so is the rail industry. In 2024, 15.3% of SNCF Réseau employees were women. Although SNCF Réseau is still a predominantly male company, we are redoubling our efforts to promote gender diversity. Our objective: to recruit more women into the rail professions, mainly in technical fields.  

Integrating and supporting people with disabilities

At SNCF Réseau, we are resolutely committed to an inclusive society, where everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential, whatever their background or situation. 

We promote and maintain the employment of people with disabilities through a proactive policy and concrete actions in the field: recruitment actions, workstation adaptation, individual support and raising the awareness of all parties.  

A collective agreement

In January 2022, SNCF Réseau signed its 9th collective agreement for the employment of disabled workers, which defines a roadmap and a three-year action plan. The priorities include: to increase the proportion of disabled employees in the company to 6% by 2024, by increasing the employment rate by 0.5% a year.

Changing the way people look at disability

Working together to combat social and cultural discrimination

Inclusion, like all human factors, is part of our response to the challenge of tomorrow's mobility and our future success.

A company like SNCF Réseau, so closely linked to our country, our society and our regions, cannot prosper if it does not reflect their diversity. We are committed to creating the conditions necessary for everyone to find their place and have the means to fulfil their potential at work, whatever their social or ethnic origin, physical condition, sexual orientation or any element of uniqueness, whether visible or not.  

A charter with L'Autre Cercle

Combating prejudice

Fighting discrimination means first and foremost fighting prejudice. Large-scale initiatives are carried out to promote diversity.

  • training and educational tools (e.g. ProDiversité "serious game")   
  • easily accessible documentary resources for information and to open dialogue (“Stop homophobia and transphobia” intranet)   
  • events organised by the teams (information campaigns and panel discussions throughout the year, work around the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia)  

We continue the fight against discrimination, strengthened by what has been achieved, but humbled by the ground still to be covered.