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TotalEnergies SE said it has put in place a plan aiding its French workforce in their personal ecological transition, providing 35,000 workers with sustainable mobility support.
The aid will come in the shape of $2,140 (EUR 2,000) gross per employee “energy efficiency and transition” allowance. This will enable 80 percent of their purchase of services relating to housing and mobility to be reimbursed.
To this end, TotalEnergies and the company’s trade union representatives in France (CFDT, CFE-CGC and CGT) unanimously signed a collective agreement, the company said in a press release.
The mobility purposes include the purchase of an electric hybrid vehicle, the purchase of a Crit’Air vehicle, the purchase of an electric bicycle, the installation of charging points for electric cars and the plug-in of hybrid cars at home. The mobility assistance also includes devices to reduce vehicle emissions, such as “flexfuel” and other biofuel conversion kits.
For home-related purposes, support will be in the form of renovation and improvement. Renovation includes energy performance diagnosis, insulation work and materials, installation of electricity meters and resale contracts. Improvement, according to TotalEnergies, includes the installation of solar panels, domestic wind turbines, heat pumps, new boilers (pellet and log-fired, condensing gas-powered or very high performance), thermostats (or devices with an efficient control system), water heaters (solar or thermodynamic) and any new, lower emissions heating systems.
The company will also reimburse up to 80 percent of its employees’ purchase of specific household appliances with high energy efficiency or a high reparability index.
This agreement complements the offers of services and products from the company’s activities intended for employees under certain conditions (discounts on station EV charging, supplies of heating pellets or logs and boiler maintenance).
The agreement applies from January 1, 2024, for a five-year period, and covers employees of all 100 percent-owned companies based in France, as well as employees of companies at least 50 percent-owned, subject to agreement by their governing bodies, by TotalEnergies, the company said.
“At TotalEnergies, we are proud of this innovative and concrete agreement which allows us to support our 35,000 employees in France in their energy transition. As a major energy player, we are committed to helping our employees finance these changes in their daily lives. Thanks to this agreement, which is one of the first of this scale in France, we intend to make a positive contribution to the country’s decarbonization targets,” said Patrick Pouyanne, chairman and chief executive officer of TotalEnergies.
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