Repsol

The company strengthens its commitment with this community

Repsol signs an agreement with the ONCE Foundation to promote the integration of disabled people into the workplace

Press Release

17 February 2010 17:41 CET

Repsol and the ONCE Foundation have signed a collaboration agreement aimed at promoting the integration of disabled people into the workplace.

The signature was presided by the Repsol Executive Director of People and Organisation, Cristina Sanz Mendiola and the Executive Vice-president of the ONCE Foundation (Organizacion Nacional de Ciegos de España), Alberto Duran.

Through this agreement, Repsol has joined for a three year period the ONCE Foundation INSERTA Program, to incorporate disabled people into its workforce. The ONCE Foundation will collaborate in the training and recruiting processes.

Repsol will also promote the integration of indirect labour by purchasing goods and services at specialised employment centres belonging to the ONCE and its Foundation. The agreement includes developing good working practices associated with accessibility to goods and services within the Repsol sphere of action, and promotes various awareness programmes to achieve the objectives included in the agreement.

The ONCE Foundation will give advice on all matters related to special needs for the disabled will provide its services in the agreed areas.

For the development and compliance of the integration objectives for disabled people, Repsol has contracted FSC INSERTA, a non profit organisation run by the ONCE Foundation.

Repsol and disabled people

Repsol has a long history of developing different projects that uphold equal opportunities and integration, especially for those people having difficulties entering the labour market. For Repsol, the integration of disabled people goes far beyond its legal duty, and responds to its conviction that employing disabled people is a benefit to the business. 

The company employs 544 disabled people. In Spain 357 are employed directly and 47 through other entities, representing more than 2% of the workforce. Repsol is the only Ibex Company with this proportion of disabled workers in its total workforce. 

In 2009, the company presented its White Paper on Recruiting Disabled People, the first of its kind to be published by a European company, aimed at offering a guide of procedures that standardise and improve the integration and recruiting processes for these workers.

Repsol has created a global accessibility guide for its petrol stations and has made two service stations in Madrid and Zaragoza globally accessible, verified by Spain’s certification agency AENOR (certificate number 170001.) In addition, it is the only company to open the first service station run entirely by disabled people, in Mostoles (Madrid).

Repsol has been awarded several prizes for its endeavours in incorporating disabled people and has been recognised by the Observatorio de Empresa y Sociedad as the company which has created most jobs of this kind between 2005 and 2007, and by the Spanish National Council of Disabled Representatives, (CERMI) in December 2008 for its commitment to integrating disabled people into society and the workplace