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FCC
achieves equality seal
in all business areas
Following the award to FCC Environment
and FCC Construction, all of FCC’s divi-
sions have now obtained the Equality Seal
from Spain’s Ministry of Health, Social Po-
licy and Equality. The Water and Industrial
divisions received it in previous years.
These two awards are a recognition of the
equality initiative adopted by FCC in 2008,
when the company signed its first Equali-
ty Plan; it was followed by the adoption of
equality plans in the other business areas.
Just three years later, in 2011, the Citizen
Services Group obtained its first Equality
Seal in the Water division, followed in 2012
by FCC Industrial and Energy Infrastructure.
The Equality Seal seeks to encourage and
recognise enterprises that are committed to
equality and which have implemented po-
licies aimed at promoting it in all areas of
the company. It also recognises the Group’s
actions in support of work-life balance, set-
ting general objectives and implementing
flexible measures which can be adapted to
diverse situations and needs on the part of
the company’s personnel.
FCC’s CEO, Carlos M. Jarque: “The Equa-
lity Seal is a recognition by the authorities
of work done over the years in pursuit of
key aspects such as equal opportunity, di-
versity and work-life balance. Our Group,”
he added, “has specific teams pursuing real
progress in these areas, with the support
and participation of the workers and their
representatives. This Equality Seal is a vin-
dication of that work.”
FCC’s CEO is nevertheless ambitious and
encourages employees to “continue wor-
king and making improvements so that
this progress is real and permanent, and
not just temporary. Equality and work-life
balance depend on all of us: men and wo-
men,” added Jarque. “There is a conside-
rable body of research showing a positive
correlation between companies’ financial
Context of balance
FCC’s commitment to equal opportu-
nity, to the promotion and respect for
diversity, and to eradicating all types
of discrimination and harassment is a
value of the organisation and a binding
requirement on all its employees. This
approach is based on the philosophy
that countries and companies that wish
to be competitive and socially and eco-
nomically sustainable must use all avai-
lable talent and, therefore, guarantee full
equality of opportunity so as to enable
women and men to contribute all their
skills, energy and intelligence to society
and, secondarily, to business.
Practice has shown that when men
and women work together in a context
performance and gender diversity.”
Factors rated when granting these two
distinctions included: implementation and
results of equality plans; establishment of
procedures and criteria for periodic evalua-
tion of those plans; and positive steps to
actively enhance equal opportunities bet-
ween men and women.
of balance, this gives rise to a diversity
of approaches, visions, languages and
relations that is substantially richer and
more in line with the great challenges
faced by business in the 21st century.