FCC Construcción has signed the company's Equality Plan with the trade unions MCA-UGT and Fecoma-Comisiones Obreras.
FCC's chairman and CEO, Baldomero Falcones, the chairman of FCC Construcción, José Mayor Oreja, and the general secretaries of MCA-UGT and Fecoma, Manuel Fernández López and Fernando Serrano, took part in the signing.

The Equality Plan is applicable across the board throughout the FCC Construcción organisation, including subsidiaries and controlled companies, and is binding on all the firm's employees.Before the plan was drafted, a team of independent experts studied the workforce to detect needs and set targets for improvements, issuing their report in May 2008.The plan takes the form of an organised set of measures designed to achieve equal treatment and opportunities for women and men, eliminating any seeds of sex-based discrimination.

The plan covers a number of different areas, including access to employment, promotion, training, pay, work-life balance, and preventing gender-based or sexual harassment - proposing proactive initiatives to address each. A monitoring plan has also been designed, to be reviewed annually, to assess the reach of the measures and schedule the strategy for the following year.

The Equality Plan includes the Protocol for the Prevention of Mobbing and Sexual Harassment within the FCC Group as a specific, detailed document for immediate action to prevent such situations, investigate any cases and, if necessary, deal with any infractions, strictly in accordance with the Equality Act 2007 and other relevant legislation.

The plan will be in effect from the date of signing until 31 December 2012, or until it is replaced by another equality plan.

For many years the FCC Group has had a code of ethical principles and values in place, developed through programmes, internal procedures and proactive measures to create a working atmosphere that fosters respect among employees, equal opportunities for women and men and the integration of diversity, which in turn involves assuming commitments towards corporate social sustainability and responsibility.