WORKS COUNCIL AND

STAFF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTION

23 MARCH 2017

TAKE CONTROL OF
YOUR RIGHTS
On 23 March, you will elect your Staff Representatives favourable to staff than those in the Labour Code and
(Dlgus du Personnel: DP) and Works Council National Collective Agreements. Within Amadeus, only
(Comit dEntreprise: CE) representatives for a the CGT took steps to tell you about the potential risks.
mandate of 3 years. For protection of your rights, you can only count on the
Why is this important? unions that place importance on the Labour Code and
the Collective Agreement, and are independent from
For certain subjects, only unions collectively receiving management.
over 50 % of the vote at CE elections have the
authority to validate agreements with the company. Your choice is therefore extremely important.
Such majority agreements will be progressively Everything depends on your vote.
extended to all domains of collective negotiation.
You need the CGT Amadeus
The latest labour law reform ( loi travail ) has over-
-turned the hierarchy of norms: with local agreements, and we need you on 23 March.
employers can now apply terms that are less Every vote counts!
For a Works Council :

which listens and relays your proposals;

which facilitates your access to social and sports activities, always at attractive prices;

which watches over the strategic choices by the Company and their consequences on staff
remunerations as well as work conditions, with the help of lawyers and independent experts.

Since 2013, we have taken up our responsibility of managing the

CE with 4 CGT representatives among the 10 members. While we
could not deliver all our projects, we have:
- stabilised the CE accounts and assured sufficient working capital
is available (per the accountants : 33% of the budget of 2.4M );
- improved your subsidies and the products offered by the CE;
- funded the investment in offices and personnel to better serve the
Amadeus staff.
Our past result and future proposals are available on our web site cgt-amadeus.fr.
 The CGT Staff Representatives
assist all staff who request help.
In the past 4 years, we assisted and advised 280 Amadeus staff and consultants,
among whom 10 % were managers.

One 53 years old developer,
recruited in 1995 and dismissed in
2016 wrote:
Thank you for your support and for
accompanying me. Thank you in
particular for your interventions, your
professionalism, your presence and your
human qualities all along this dismissal
process.
Congratulations for your actions, too
often unpublicized, but which are worth
exposing to all and also for the
courage you show in following your
convictions.
Message from Herv Couturier, EVP, dismissed in 2016:
After 4 years fully dedicated to Amadeus and its employees
as Executive Vice President, Research & Development, I
was dismissed in 2016. Given the difficulty of this situation, I
requested the assistance of Stphane Jouteux.
Stphane is the chairman of the work council of Nice and of
the Amadeus European Work Council. He is well-known and
recognized, including at the Amadeus top level, as a serious
and efficient personnel representative for both individual and
collective cases.
He has demonstrated extreme professionalism in helping me
handle this tense period. I would like to thank him for his
helpful support and advices, and would certainly recommend
working with him in equivalent situations in the future.

We look out for the employees of companies providing services to Amadeus Nice (restaurant, travel agents, cleaners).

Notable facts CGT Quickcard

about your work rights
Profit sharing for staff:
We bring it up to date and
May 2013: 400 staff attended information sessions organised by
distribute it in thousands.
the CE to explain the tax optimisation mechanism, used by
Amadeus, and which reduced the amount eligible for profit sharing. You can get a copy on our web
Subsequently, management announce a minimum guaranteed profit site or request it from us.
share of 5.5 % of the salary mass. CGT has been responsible for
2016: Management wanted to put an upper limit of 10% for the building a large part of your work
profit share. We organised a general assembly in May, followed by a rights since 2005.
gathering and demonstration on 28 June, where 400 staff attended.
Management revised its project and the minimum guaranteed profit
share of 5.5 % of the salary mass was made permanent.

On call compensation: With your backing, CGT negotiated an

increase in compensation higher than that demanded by the other
unions. The weekly compensation passed from 280 to 400 in
2014.

Committee for Health and Safety and Working Conditions (CHSCT)

Your CGT representatives at the CHSCT met over 600 staff at
their workplaces to resolve day-to-day issues, assisted staff who
were having difficulties with their management or victims of
incidents at work, and to collect your viewpoint on the progress of
your working conditions:
 We received 1 300 replies to our questionnaire on working
conditions and made a comprehensive analysis of it which is
available on our web site.
 Independent study by a specialised company on the
renovations of Building A which enabled us to propose
redesigns different from the ones proposed by Management.
 A survey of 300 staff on the deployment of open-spaces was
provided to Management.
 In 2013, Management has suppressed the right to
communicate with you by company mails. Since
then we (CGT or inter-union) have
communicate 53 times i.e. on average once a
month. A large majority are available on our web
site cgt-amadeus.fr.
Each year, we are the only union attending the
Shareholders General Assembly in Madrid. We
speak at these meetings and publish our actions.
Whenever possible we work as one with the
other unions and for the benefit of the staff..

The CGT at the European CE: A means to carry your voice to the
highest level of Company Management (CEO, CFO, Coprporate HR)
It is at the European CE that the Staff Company
Bonus was negotiated and which in 2017 will be:
- 5 % individual bonus;
- plus about 7 % company bonus and 1.5 %
welcome bonus for all (except for
Unsatisfactory performance).
This is about 13.5 %, instead of the usual 8 %.
In our newsletter #24 (on our website cgt-
amadeus.fr), you can find an explanation of this
new mechanism of variable remuneration for
Amadeus staff, the negotiation steps, the role
played by CGT representatives and what we
fought for.
A message from staff representatives
of Amadeus London
We have been representing the Amadeus
employees of London for many years at the
European Amadeus Employee Committee (AEEC).
We would like to thank our colleagues of the CGT
union of France and particularly Stphane Jouteux,
speaker of the AEEC since 2013.
Stphane was excellent in challenging mana-
-gement. He always tried to take into account and
consolidate the concerns of the representatives
from ten countries, a truly difficult task. The AEEC
has made a lot of progress in the past years.
Our CGT colleagues are always meticulous in
consulting with Amadeus people in the UK, listening
to our remarks and trying to find compromises in
order to allow the AEEC body to speak in one voice
to our Top management.
In view of the forthcoming election of a works
representative in Nice, which will also impact the
representation of France at the AEEC level, we
support our colleagues from the CGT union and
hope that we will be able to continue with them to
provide a strong voice for the Amadeus employees
in our countries.
AEEC / GMB TU Reps London (Cathie Williams,
Hugh Coughlan, Karl Heywood)

For the European CE also, each vote counts!

Give us the means to pursue the actions
we have engaged in on your behalf
by voting CGT Amadeus on 23 March
 YOUR CGT CANDIDATES FOR
THE CE AND DP ELECTIONS

Stphane Dominique Xavier Sabine Florent Chantal

Jouteux Duron Lamorlette Dauplay Exbrayat Mousseaux

Christophe Anne Fabien Vronique Ugo Susan

Dauvillaire Tarantola Ducat Cicion Laterra Lovell

Marc Dalila Alain Pascale Frdric Christine

Chantegreil Mallah Romedenne Haymann Barber Ouvr

Thomas Karine Olivier Alain Cyril Guillaume

Quentin Lepolozec Geffroy Marafetti Dioli Courvoisier

We need you!
TOGETHER, LET US VOTE

CGT AMADEUS
Jos-Luis
Marin
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Bakir
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Buscaglia
ON 23 MARCH