Mercadona and work and family reconciliation

Can you imagine that your children's school was in your same workplace, and it was also free? That is what some Mercadona workers find. Mercadona is a large Spanish supermarket chain that stands out for work and family conciliation measures They will surely thank their workers.

Even, putting a free nursery school for the children of their employees in the largest warehouse they own in Spain, in Ciempozuelos (Madrid), with capacity for one hundred children.

We already told you a while ago that Mercadona workers can stay at home after 20 weeks of pregnancy, what a difference from those companies that put all kinds of impediments on pregnant women.

It is significant that Mercadona is one of the companies with the highest growth and level of satisfaction among its employees. I would certainly be very happy if next year, instead of having to have asked me for half a day and do juggling so that my little daughter does not stay in a nursery and to continue paying the mortgage, she would have been at my side.

In that case I could have had the little girl next to my work center, to be with her on breaks and in the free hours, to accompany her, play with her, breastfeed, leave her and pick her up just when I enter and leave for work and no more time than necessary ... Things that become very difficult if the baby has to be away.

Mercadona has been repeatedly indicated as a pioneer company for its good human resources and social responsibility practices, as well as in the practice of equality between women and men and their reconciliation measures of work and family life.

Do you know someone who works in Mercadona supermarkets and has spoken badly about your company? What the unions say is that these measures are beneficial and productive for everyone, although on the other hand I have been able to hear from unhappy workers for other reasons.

But as regards the reconciliation of work and family life, I hope many other companies and the Administration will take an example and this possibility of having a nursery school in the workplace be extended when possible. Of course, it is not so difficult to organize it in another way, and as we see there are advantages on all sides.

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