Abertis Telecom obtains the Bequal Plus Seal for its commitment to the professional and personal advancement of workers with disability

The company’s social responsibility

Abertis Telecom obtains the Bequal Plus Seal for its commitment to the professional and personal advancement of workers with disability

• Every year, the Fundación Bequal, comprised of the CERMI, the Fundación ONCE, FEACEM and the Fundación Seeliger y Conde, awards these certifications to companies that have demonstrated a ma-jor degree of commitment to social responsibility and disability.
• This accreditation acknowledges Abertis Telecom’s work in its strategy of recruiting employees with disability and in the management of diversity.

Barcelona, January 29, 2015.– The Fundación Bequal’s Certification Committee recently acknowledged abertis telecom’s decided commitment to the professional and personal development of workers with disability. This foundation is comprised of the Comité Español de Representantes de Personas con Discapacidad (CERMI), the Fundación ONCE, FEACEM and the Fundación Seeliger y Conde.
The Bequal Certification is an evaluation system that ascertains the company’s degree of engagement with social responsibility and disability in strategic areas of the organisation. Such is the case, for example, of the leadership and strategy area, top management’s commitment to people with disability, human resource management, universal accessibility, responsible purchasing policies, customer service and other management areas.
Last November, abertis telecom underwent an external audit and accessibility analysis by expert inspectors to rate its level of commitment and responsibility towards professionals with disability. Following this analysis, the Fundación Bequal decided to grant Abertis Telecom the Plus Category of the Bequal certification. This accreditation acknowledges the company’s work through its strategy targeting transversal inclusion and the management of disability throughout the organisation, its policy of the inclusion of diversity in human resources and in the products and services it offers its customers.
In this edition, the Fundación Bequal also evaluated Enagás, FREMAP and Aquadom as companies that embrace people with disability, and granted these companies its quality seal.

Abertis Telecom

Abertis Telecom is one of the main independent wireless telecommunications and broad-casting infrastructure operators in Europe.
It offers a site-leasing service for telecommunications operators and delivers highly-advanced audiovisual services to local, regional and national broadcasters.
It is firmly committed to the development of its network, that currently numbers almost 8,000 sites, through the acquisition of mobile telephony towers, thus positioning itself as a European reference player in the development of next generation networks.
It also develops solutions that optimise municipal services to citizens, implementing im-plementing networks and services that facilitate municipal management, contributing ac-tively to the creation of a solid IoT ecosystem in Spain.