The RATP wants to continue to build on the 93. A charter “Seine-Saint-Denis Equality” was signed on Tuesday between the RATP and the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis, chaired by Stéphane Troussel (PS). Objective: “to accelerate the economic and social development of the territory”, as stated in the text of the charter.

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It’s been more than 10 years now, the RATP and the Seine-Saint-Denis walk “hand in hand” employment. A first partnership was signed in 2006 and renewed in 2009. In 2015, a first charter “Seine-Saint-Denis Equality” has been signed. It has, therefore, been extended on Tuesday, and for three additional years.

23% of recruitment of the RATP were to be held in Seine-Saint-Denis

The partnership between the RATP and the Seine-Saint-Denis is reflected by the implementation of several concrete actions on the ground. Among them, there are including the “gateway to employment-enterprise,” which allows people seeking employment to benefit from a specific preparation: refresher in French and in math, help with writing a CV and a letter of motivation, immersion field, etc… This device has already allowed 71 inhabitants of the department to be recruited as a bus conductor these past two years.

overall, the 93 is now the leading provider of workforce of the RATP. “With more than 23% of the recruitment, the Seine-Saint-Denis department of Île-de-France, where the RATP recruits the most,” explains the governance of transport in the text of the charter, signed on Tuesday. Over the period 2015-2017, more than 2,000 inhabitants of the 93 were recruited.

other departments

The RATP promotes the recruitment of the inhabitants of the 93 to the detriment of other departments? The régie de transport defends. “The device ‘bridge employment-business’ is not specific to the department of Seine-Saint-Denis. In fact, in 2019, it is also deployed to departments 91, 92, 94 and 75,” responds the RATP in Figaro .

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The RATP also explains that his group “respects the legal framework in the area of equal treatment and non-discrimination of candidates.” “The candidates ‘gateway’ must then submit to the same recruitment process as all other applicants, regardless of their provenance. Thus, they spend the same tests, with the same level of requirements (…) The process as it is implemented is so non-discriminating that is to say, that he shall respect the equality of chances between candidates regardless of the source of their application (forums jobs, ratp.fr Pôle Emploi etc),” says the governance of transport. RATP indicates that the entire device gateway (all departments combined) corresponded to 168 candidates in 2018, “to put it in the light of all of the recruitments in the Île-de-France”.