(Finance) – Supporting parenthood by promoting increasingly inclusive and sustainable work environments. With this objective Enel inaugurated today in Rome in the new headquarters in via Luigi Boccherini, the “Growing with Energy” company nursery. The Minister for Family, Birth Rate and Equal Opportunities cut the ribbon of the new facility Eugenia Roccellathe Councillor for Culture, Equal Opportunities, Youth and Family Policies, Civil Service of the Lazio Region Simona Renata Baldassarrethe Councilor for School, Training and Work of the Municipality of Rome Claudia Pratelli, the President of the II Municipality of Rome Francesca Del Bello and the CEO of Enel Flavio Cattaneo, in the presence of Enel directors Elizabeth ColacchiaPeople & Organization, Stephen Ciurli, Global Services, Nicholas MardeganExternal Relations, and Nicholas Lanzetta, Director Italy.
“Creating a corporate welfare system that responds to social needs is a commitment for Enel that translates into concrete actions such as the opening of the company nursery,” he stated. Cattaneo –. We will continue to develop initiatives aimed at improving the well-being of our people by creating the conditions for true equal access to the world of work”.
“Companies, with corporate welfare and welcoming work environments for parents, play a fundamental role in the work-life balance and in the fight against the low birth rate – he said Rock –. The government has placed this issue at the center of its action, with investments and concrete measures and also by promoting an alliance with the world of business and work through tools such as the self-discipline code that goes exactly in this direction. Enel was one of the first large companies to sign the code, and today’s inauguration demonstrates that awareness can translate into tangible actions that can help parents to reconcile family and work, women to not experience motherhood and professional fulfillment as alternative options, and society to have the future that today the declining birth rate puts at risk”.
The nursery, dedicated to the children of people working at Enel’s offices in Rome, has obtained authorization from the Municipality of Rome and can accommodate 42 children aged between 3 months and 3 yearswith a monthly fee paid 50% by the company. The new facility – Enel explains in a note – is part of a highly innovative educational project that aims to support the autonomous and creative development of children, integrating daily English language learning activities with lessons in music, psychomotor skills, art, cognitive development, symbolic play and initiation to reading. The nursery also offers an internal kitchen service with varied and seasonal menus.
This initiative constitutes a further welfare measure that adds to the already substantial Group share package to support parenting throughout Italy, including: the temporal extension of paternity leave and a favorable remuneration for parental leave; adherence to the “Code of Self-Discipline of Responsible Companies in favor of maternity”, promoted by the Ministry for the Family; flexibility with the possibility of working in smart working and part-time and the provision of economic contributions for nurseries, schools, summer camps and study trips abroad.