Social cooperation, after having assumed a leading role as a provider of corporate welfare services with a ‘social’ vocation, wants to further raise the bar by enhancing the value of corporate welfare in order to include it in a broader framework of reflection on the role that work plays in people’s lives today. For this reason, Welfare come te – a consortium of social cooperatives among the largest in Italy – in partnership with Elena Macchioni (associate professor in Sociology of cultural processes at the department of Political and Social Sciences of the Alma Mater ‘University of Bologna) and with the contribution of the Ixè Research Institute, it created the first national observatory on the welfare needs of workers with care responsibilities.
The project will take the form of a quantitative opinion survey – on a representative sample of workers – aimed at monitoring the world of work every two years, providing a snapshot of living conditions, the work context, the experiences of needs and requirements. of welfare of Italian workers, with a focus on those with care responsibilities.
The intent is to create a network of subjects interested in sharing an organic space on ongoing corporate welfare experiences, a place of knowledge and interaction focused on needs and aspirations, responses and impacts, in order to make up for the lack of attention on condition of ‘caregiver workers’. The observatory will pay particular attention to an aspect that is as relevant as it is neglected: the gender dimension.
“It creates – explains Paolo Schipani, general director of Welfare come te – a space for dialogue between social cooperation, cooperation and profit-making companies within which we want to implement synergies that can help redesign the welfare of our country system, with the support of scientifically collected data”.
The project, in fact, is developed with the unconditional contribution of 5 important companies who, right from the start, shared its value context: Camst Group, Coop Alleanza 3.0, Danone, Findomestic Banca and Unicredit. And, to have an even more complex reading of the phenomenon, sector experts with proven experience in the field of welfare and labor policies will participate in the project – as an advisory board: Rita Ghedini (delegate for Labor of Legacoop Nazionale), Silvia Spattini (senior research fellow Adapt), Emmanuele Massagli (president of Aiwa-Italian corporate welfare association), Jorge Torre (responsible for social bargaining and relationship with CGIL contractual welfare) and Paolo Venturi (director of Aiccon research center).
According to Macchioni, “new and methodologically effective tools are needed to understand emerging needs, as we cannot take anything for granted, in a context that is the protagonist of a strong social acceleration that changes needs and generates new social risks (such as, for example, the reconciliation of life and work). and equity”. The first results from the Observatory will be released next autumn.
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