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Metro-Forum 2003

16.10.2003

Metro-Forum 2003

With the Metro-Forum 2003 event, METRO Group is highlighting the concerns of people with disabilities within the scope of the "European Year for People with Disabilities". By means of lectures, debates and discussion panels at the METRO Group’s headquarters in Duesseldorf, representatives from politics, administration, economy and associations are dealing with the issue of the equality of opportunities for people with disabilities in the working life and in society. The key address will be held by the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Health and Social Security, Franz Thönnes.

Together with its Group Works Council and the VdK social association METRO Group has invited more than 200 representatives from the areas of economy, social organizations as well as authorities and politics in order to cast light on the problems of people with disabilities. This event was prompted by the "European Year for People with Disabilities" whose motto is to heighten the population’s awareness of the special living situation of people with disabilities by means of numerous projects and actions in all EU countries. Within the scope of the Metro-Forum, a whole day is dedicated to lectures and discussion panels to focus on the obstacles people with disabilities are confronted with in their job environment and what possibilities and options there are to achieve the desired equality. With this event, METRO Group wants to inform and give food for thought. "For the METRO Group as an international trading and retailing company and one of the largest employers in Germany, the integration of people with disabilities into the working life is a primary concern", underlines Zygmunt Mierdorf, member of the Management Board of METRO AG. "Although the demands for the right to participation, equality and self-determination are plausible, their implementation in day-to-day life is still a far cry from reality." As the largest trading and retailing group in Germany, METRO Group employs more than 3,800 people with officially recognized disabilities.

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