06 February 2009

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Elica’s Integrative Contract wins them the “Ethics and Industry” award.


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The Elica Group has won the 2009 “Ethics and Industry” award in the “Corporate Social Responsibility” category, promoted for the third year running by the General Management Association, the Italian Human Resource Management Association, the Association Project for Management and Professionalism, the Italian Management Confederation and the National Association of Industrial Management, with the sponsorship of the Prime Minister’s Office  and the Ministry for Employment and Social Policies.

The Fabriano group came first out of a list of 15 companies and bodies, which included the Municipality and Province of Milan and the Italian Post Office. The award, presented to the company at the head office of the National Council For Employment and the Economy in Rome, was assigned by a highly qualified committee composed of professors from some of Italy’s most distinguished educational institutions, including Rome’s Roma 3, La Sapienzaand Luiss Universities, Milan’s Bocconi Business School, the University of Siena and the Federico II University in Naples.

Elica was assigned the award, explained the committee, “for having rendered the fundamental principles of Corporate Social Responsibility effective in a concrete and innovative way, efficaciously combining systems of involvement and reward.”

In the second half of 2008, Elica, in agreement with trade union representatives, signed its first group Integrative Contract, a true model of modernity and farsightedness that contains not only a series of regulations which include various financial provisions, but also an especially innovative welfare system. The agreement includes additional time off for fathers with young babies, economic assistance for newly-married couples, extra-contractual support for young mothers, and long periods of leave for non-European colleagues who live far from their families.

An award, therefore, that fully recognises the Elica Group’s firm commitment to put the people who work there at the very centre of the organisation and company activity, even when international circumstances create moments of great difficulty such as the present one.