EMPLOYMENT AND DISABILITY: TF1 GROUP MOBILISES FOR DUODAY 2023

At TF1 group, we respect everyone for who they are – both within our teams, and in our programmes. Every day, we are engaged in representing all aspects of diversity.

To mark the 27th European Week for the Employment of People with Disabilities (SEEPH), which runs from Monday 20 to Sunday 26 November, TF1 group is partnering the #DuoDay2023 national awareness day and reaffirming its commitment to employing people with disabilities through a variety of initiatives.

DuoDay 2023: TF1, LCI and TF1 INFO get mobilised

For the sixth year running, TF1 group is supporting #DuoDay by welcoming people with disabilities to its studios and channels. 

DuoDay encourages companies to pair up a person with disabilities and a volunteer employee for a day, to promote inclusion in the world of business through work. 

We give the initiative an exceptional shop window on the TF1 and LCI channels by offering people with disabilities the chance to co-present high-profile programmes side by side with our presenters.

• The viewer Q&A segment of the 8pm news bulletin with Gilles Bouleau and Garance Pardigon will be devoted to the theme of the inclusion of people with disabilities. 
• A series of videos on Tiktok, Snapchat and YouTube produced by Garance Pardigon with Marcel, an 8-year-old boy with Down Syndrome, and his mother Carole, known on social media as @extraordinaireMarcel. Marcel and his mother were invited into the TF1 newsroom studios and talked to our presenters.
•  The TF1 weather forecast before the 8pm news bulletin on Thursday 23 November, co-presented by Evelyne Dhéliat and Pierre-Louis, a TF1 staffer with dwarfism.
•  The Petits plats en équilibre show on 23 November, co-presented by Laurent Mariotte and Aurélien, a cook with Cafés Joyeux.
• The TF1 afternoon weather forecast presented by Karine Fauvet alongside Arthur, a TF1 staffer with a hidden disability.
•  The Loto draw on TF1 on Wednesday 22 November, co-presented by Hamid Allouache, a dancer who has been paraplegic since 2016 and Inès Vandamme, a dancer, choreographer and host of the FDJ lottery draw.
•  On LCI, the Impact Positif show on 18 November marked the launch of the SEEPH with Sylvia Amicone being joined by Yann Bucaille-Lanrezac, founder of Cafés Joyeux, accompanied by Aurélien, a member of one of the café teams.
• Clips on TF1 INFO and the TF1 group’s social media.

TF1 group is committed to creating jobs for people with disabilities

For many years the TF1 group has had an active policy of guaranteeing equality of treatment for everyone and preventing all forms of discrimination, in particular through:

• Signature of the 6th Disability Agreement which establishes the conditions for an active policy of employing and training employees with disabilities.
• TF1’s “Mission Handicap”, which has been active for the last 14 years in developing the recruitment, integration and maintenance in employment of workers with disabilities.
• Hosting 14 workers with disabilities on block release this year.