Veolia Environnement : lures HGV drivers with £1,500 sign-on bonus as shortage swells to 100,000
August 19, 2021 at 07:31 am EDT
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French multinational Veolia told City A.M. this afternoon it is offering a £1,500 bonus for HGV drivers to join its waste collection operations across London.
The move comes as businesses across the country are experiencing a drop in trained HGV drivers due to a combination of factors from Brexit, Covid-19 and a testing backlog.
The Road Haulage Association (RHA) was predicting a shortage of about 60,000 drivers pre-pandemic but they now estimate this to be over 100,000 across the UK.
In recycling and waste, Veolia is reporting an average of 15 per cent vacancy rates for driving roles and it is proving “very challenging” to fill this resourcing gap given the dynamics of this labour market, according to Beth Whittaker, chief human resources officer at Veolia UK & Ireland.
“We hope the incentive will encourage drivers to consider working with us. People that I speak to in our business are passionate about what they do because our roles are different,” he added.
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Veolia Environnement is the world leader in environmental management services. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- water-related services (40.6%; No. 1 worldwide): water resources management, drinking water distribution and delivery, wastewater collection, treatment and recovery, engineering, design, construction of water treatment facilities and customer relationship management, etc.;
- waste management services (32.4%; no. 1 worldwide): collection, treatment and recycling of liquid, solid, non-hazardous and hazardous waste, waste treatment and recovery through composting, energy recovery from waste, etc. Veolia Environnement also provides urban waste management services (maintenance and cleaning of public spaces, provision of mechanized street cleaning and façade treatment services), maintenance of industrial sites, and dismantling of industrial facilities and equipment at the end of their useful life;
- energy services (27%; No. 1 in Europe): delegated management of urban heating and air conditioning networks, management of thermal and multi-technique services (operation of heating systems, facility design, construction, and maintenance, etc.) and industrial services (industrial process analysis, production equipment operation, service, and maintenance), general management of buildings and public lighting.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (21.5%), Europe (41.9%), North America (7.4%), Asia (5.6%), Africa and the Middle East (4.9%), Pacific (4.3%), Latin America (4%) and other (10.4%).