Facilitate the reconciliation between work and personal life, for example by offering permits for special needs or teleworking. To facilitate the integration and professional development of people with disabilities. Encourage the transfer of experience between young and old with a generational exchange. These are some of the objectives of the national agreement on guidelines on social responsibility in second-level bargaining, signed yesterday in Milan by Federchimica and Farmindustria and the trade unions Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl, Uilcem-Uil, following the commitments signed with the renewal of the contract on 18 December 2009. Federchimica, Farmindustria and the signatory trade union organizations of the National Collective Labor Agreement for workers in the chemical, chemical-pharmaceutical, chemical fiber and abrasive, lubricant and LPG industries - reports a joint press release - have signed these voluntary guidelines to encourage socially responsible behavior and choices in industrial relations and company bargaining. The innovative agreement represents the commitment of companies and workers to integrate, each in relation to their role, social, ethical and environmental issues in their activities and in internal and external relationships, operating responsibly and having clear rights and duties.
The choice of the National Collective Labor Agreement to develop social responsibility interventions stems from the awareness that bargaining, in relation to people's growing expectations on welfare issues, will increasingly have an integrative role of the welfare state, even with the necessary tax incentives. With the shared Guidelines, thanks to the consolidated participatory model of industrial relations in the sector, the company parties are offered possible topics for sharing social responsibility choices in second-level bargaining.
"When we talk about social responsibility - Ugo Di Francesco, Farmindustria's trade union delegate, tells Pharmakronos - we usually do it unilaterally. These guidelines are instead characterized by the sharing of all the players in the field
