The supplementary welfare for employees in the fashion sector is expanded and structured with the launch of Sanimoda, which complements the Previmoda supplementary pension fund.
Born in July 2017, Sanimoda, which addresses a potential audience of 400.000 workers, inaugurated insurance coverage for its members on 1 April.
The announcement was made today in Milan during a press conference attended by Fiammetta Fabris, CEO of UniSalute (Unipol group), Gianluca Brenna, Chairman of the Sanimoda Fund, Roberto Arioli, Chairman of the Previmoda Fund, and Giancarlo Bosser, Chief Life&Employee Benefits Officer of Generali Italia.
This strengthens the fashion welfare system, a project that since the establishment of Previmoda in 1997, has grown with the introduction of a life and disability insurance policy for the workers enrolled in it, which involves companies and workers in the industrial sectors of the Fashion System .
The establishment of Sanimoda is the result of the work of the social partners, which in a very few months has achieved what was stipulated in the last rounds of contractual renewals of the national collective bargaining agreements in the sector.
The insurance companies selected by Sanimoda for the management of its health plan are Unisalute in co-insurance with Generali Italia, which will manage the services provided for workers and their families.
The coverages offered to workers in the sector include, for example, the payment of expenses for: hospitalizations, visits, highly diagnostic and highly specialized examinations, dental treatments, preventive check-ups, physiotherapy, assistance services for chronic diseases, for which UniSalute has developed a highly innovative management model.
Particular attention is paid to the needs of expectant mothers and the whole family, with preventive check-ups for minor children, dental appliances, a childhood obesity prevention service with a unique management model on the market. But still compensation for expenses incurred for disabled children and parents hospitalized in nursing homes for the elderly, spa treatments and support for families in the case of autistic children, affected by genetic diseases or disabled.
