Luxottica: innovation and welfare

After the welfare package and the shopping cart, now it’s the turn of the hour bank and job sharing. But also paternity leaves, initiatives in support of training and more part-time jobs.
These, in brief, are the main ingredients of Luxottica’s new integration plan signed by the top management of the Belluno-based giant and the trade unions. The 3-year contract that integrates the national eyewear industry contract will affect the 8,000 employees at the production facilities in Agordo, Cencenighe and Sedico (Belluno), Pederobba (Treviso), Rovereto (Trento) and Lauriano (Turin).

This is a "laboratory contract" inspired on the one hand by the need to make industrial organization more flexible and fast, and on the other to offer employees financial opportunities and a general improvement in their standard of living.

Let’s take as an example a couple that plan to start a family within 3 years: they will be able to transfer to an “hour bank” leave, overtime and days of vacation, which they can use after the birth of the child. In the same way that at the time of the happy event, new fathers will be able to take up to 5 working days off work with full pay.

Another important new addition is "job sharing", which aims to safeguard the overall earning capacity of an employee’s family and to protect the professional capacity of members with fewer opportunities for employment.

For example, if a spouse or child is unemployed, they can substitute the relative working in Luxottica.

Obviously, there is also health protection: in the case of a serious illness, the company will guarantee the integration of up to 100% of the salary of an employee who has been absent for over 180 days. There is also support for study and training and the introduction of study grants. With regard to the organization of work, the contract provides for wider recognition of part-time and seasonal work.

As to the financial side, the Group’s profitability and the involvement of employees are combined with a reduction in the cost of energy, waste and office consumables. If costs are reduced, the employee will be recompensed. The unions are satisfied and conscious of the epoch-making change from union demands to a model of active participation.

Source: Il Gazzettino