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Tajani: “Thanks to this protocol we want to encourage the creation of a shared model of good practices useful for work-life balance”

Milan, July 3 2019 – Milan is increasingly attentive to promoting work-life balance and good local practices aimed at improving the well-being of workers and citizens. It was signed today, at Palazzo Marino, the memorandum of understanding between the Municipality and all the investee companies to share policies, methods, interventions on the issues of conciliation and actions that improve the working well-being of employees by adapting work times to new lifestyles and the new needs of companies and families. Signing the protocol on behalf of the Administration was the councilor for employment policies, productive activities, trade and human resources, Cristina Tajani with representatives of Afol Metropolitana, the Environment and Territory Mobility Agency, ATM SpA, A2a SpA, Gruppo CAP , Milano Ristorazione SpA, Milano Sport SpA, MM SpA, SEA SpA.

Thanks to this protocol – explains councilor Tajani – we want to encourage the creation of a shared model of good practices useful for work-life balance capable of extending to all workers of the investee companies. At a time of transformation in the ways and times of work, paying attention to organizational well-being understood as the quality of working conditions is a priority for a city like Milan which bases much of its identity on work itself. The public context, which supports innovation in many fields, can and must experiment with models capable of communicating with the city and making clear and widespread the idea that people come to Milan not only because there is work but because they work well, respecting people, their expectations and their times".

Among the main objectives pursued by the protocol is the establishment of a permanent table that allows the exchange of experiences and the creation of opportunities to be shared among all participating subjects. The document proposes to promote the creation of a territorial corporate welfare network capable of creating a laboratory of innovative projects and actions active throughout the city which could become a model of good practices also on a national level.

The main interventions to which the signatories are called range from the experimental introduction of pilot projects in the areas of work-life balance and welfare, to the identification of training and tutoring interventions on specific issues in the management of time and human resources ,  until  the implementation of a system of monitoring and output evaluation tools to identify unique ways of evaluating the results achieved capable of promoting a unified picture of what happens in the city on conciliation issues.

This protocol is part of a process started in 2011 which sees the Administration engaged in the implementation of activities and projects aimed at introducing new models of flexibility in work performance, such as "The Agile Work Week" - which has reached its end this year. seventh edition - in response to the work-life balance needs of internal staff. This is accompanied by actions such as: "MAAM - Motherhood is a master's degree", the program that accompanies parents in making the most of the potential for improving the skills that are learned daily through the experience of parenthood. “Happy popping”, the awareness campaign aimed at public and private services, to set up areas available to parents to breastfeed and look after their children. “Concilia campus”, the experimental public-private collaboration project, financed by the Lombardy Region, to offer the staff of the Municipality and partner companies services to support work-life balance through campus days aimed at primary and secondary school children of first degree, on non-holidays when schools are closed.

The protocol, signed today between the Municipality and investee companies, will last two years, renewable, and does not entail any financial burden on the Administration or individual companies.