During the summer, the Italian subsidiary at French pharmaceutical group Sanofi signed an agreement with trade unions on work hours and services for employees and their families working in Milan, Modena, and Rome, as well as for the commercial staff, affecting 1,000 workers out of a total of 2,500 in Italy. A first for Italy in so far as senior level employees will only have to sign in once a day and other employees just twice. With this agreement Sanofi has stopped monitoring work hours for a large segment of the workforce.
A new feeling of trust between employees and the company. Following a process of collaboration with the trade unions, this agreement revolutionizes the way working time is taken into account. The relevant collective agreement sets 38.5 hours for the working week (40 for commercial staff) and with this agreement Sanofi is the first company in the pharmaceutical sector, and probably one of the very few in the country to propose an alternative system whereby its highest category A and B administra
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