CEPI is once again awarded as Welfare Champion within the Welfare Index PMI 2024, a selection promoted by Generali Italia of the best corporate welfare programs amongs small and medium Italian enterprises. Welfare Champions are chosen from more than 7,000 participating companies.
The awards took place last Thursday 13 June in Rome, where our Davide Saputo, HSE and Factory Director, represented CEPI as a member of the Welfare Committee.
“Welfare means well-being, and working without well-being has no meaning,” says Stefania Montalti, who coordinates our sustainability strategy. “Work itself must be a source of well-being. Our relationship with staff and community is guided by the principle of restitution: the value generated by the company must be shared. The idea is that those who work with us must benefit from what we do.”
PMI Welfare Index evaluates the level of corporate welfare in small and medium-sized Italian companies and awards companies with a corporate welfare system characterized by a very significant level of initiative (both in terms of breadth and intensity), high management skills and economic-organizational commitment (proactivity, orientation towards social innovation, systematic worker involvement) and significant social impacts on the community inside and outside the company.
According to the Welfare Index survey, therefore, SMEs with a rich welfare program not only generate a positive impact on people and communities (fostering the employment of young people and women, promoting inclusion and diversity, encouraging training and development), but tend to see increases in productivity and turnover. Davide Saputo confirms this: “Quality does not only concern the product, but also the care of the people who build it. For me, quality is also sensitivity, the heart of the steel we work with every day. For the end user, our systems enhance the ingredients, but I like to think that in CEPI, the systems enhance the people who create them, each within their role as in a large ecosystem.”
Our heartfelt congratulations go to the other award-winning organizations in the area: the Forlì-Cesena Social Solidarity Consortium, the Paolo Babini Social Solidarity Cooperative, the L’accoglienzaCooperative (members of the Consortium). Corinna Crippa is also Welfare Manager of CEPI, and comments on this result achieved together: “The collaboration with CEPI within the Social Welfare project, which started in 2018 and was aimed not only at the network of associates but also at other local businesses. These results make us proud and underline the benefit of collaboration between Third Sector and companies that share the same value asset.”
We thank the Welfare Index project and Generali Italia for the survey and the opportunity for discussion, and we hope it is only the beginning of a brilliant future.
For more information about our welfare plan → https://www.cepisilos.com/welfare-plan/
To learn more about → www.welfareindexpmi.it
