Welfare and Business
Snam’s company welfare system is currently a mix of innovation and wellestablished practices. The innovations include the “Premio Welfare” [Welfare Bonus], and the Smart Working project designed to best meet the needs for balancing life and work.
In our time, social innovation encounters problems that are not completely new, but amplified by the effects of globalization and by the crisis of the welfare systems, having difficulty coping especially with poverty and exclusion that affect large brackets of the population. For many countries in the western world, it is becoming increasingly difficult to guarantee services such as health, education, infrastructure, and assistance at acceptable costs and with the financial coverage assured by tax revenues.
And if, faced with an increase in the complexity and significance of the needs, with the resources allocated to social expenses which are not sufficient, the welfare system has to reinvent itself, finding innovative solutions to maintain an adequate level of social security. The subsidiary role of the non-profit sector in providing goods and services previously guaranteed by the public sector has grown over the years. But also due to the economic crisis and the size and organizational limits of non-profit organizations and institutions, the answer is not complete.
The innovation behind Snam’s company welfare system
Corporate welfare is the set of operations – both monetary and in the form of services – which increases the level of social protection and the purchasing power of employees and which can indirectly generate a positive impact on the corporate climate.
Creating a mutually-accepted, functional, and effective corporate welfare system can be an example of social innovation within a company. In order for a corporate welfare system to be effective, it must be built around people, and Snam’s system was at the time created precisely with the goal of meeting the emerging needs and necessities of the various brackets of the company population.
Snam’s company welfare system is currently a mix of innovation and well-established practices. Besides services for health and wellness, school aid and vocational guidance for the children of employees, the support for parenting, home-work mobility and the granting of micro-loans, it offers a package of new proposals, originating subsequent to agreements with the Trade-Union Organisations. These include the “Premio Welfare” [Welfare Bonus], and the Smart Working project designed to best meet the needs for balancing life and work
With the Welfare Bonus it will be possible for the employees, as an alternative to the total payment of the individual amount of the Participation Bonus, to voluntarily choose whether to convert a percentage of the Bonus into a welfare credit which they can use to purchase services for themselves or for their family members.
Areas |
2017 Activity |
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Family |
Nursery school |
Reimbursement for employees who use it |
School |
Subsidies to purchase school textbooks |
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Summer and study periods stays |
Stays for children of employees in certain locations of Italy |
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S.O.S. family |
Professionally managed family counselling service |
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Maternity, adoptions and foster care |
Parenting guide |
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Health and Wellness |
Accidents |
Insurance coverage for non-occupational accidents |
Supplementary healthcare |
Insurance coverage that guarantees the reimbursement of part of the expenses incurred for medical and hospital services both at public and private healthcare facilities |
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Cancer prevention |
Prevention protocols |
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Sports centres |
Discounts and favourable conditions for employees |
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Diet |
High-quality company restaurant and takeaway service for private use |
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Workplace Health Programme |
Membership in the health programme launched by the Region of Lombardy |
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Specialised medical services and check-ups |
Arrangement with Monzino Cardiology Centre for visits intended for employees and their family members |
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Tempo per Te |
Facilitations |
Flexible working hours |
Savings and relations |
Supplementary pension schemes |
Supplementary pension funds, also funded by employer voluntary contributions |
Microcredit |
Low-interest loans |
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Assistance |
Tax and legal assistance |
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Mobility |
Subsidized purchase of public transportation passes; shuttle service to San Donate Milanese offices |
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Arrangements |
Insurance policies, bank credit cards, car hire, purchase of name-brand products, holiday bookings |
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