Global insurer and asset manager Axa has launched a global health and wellbeing programme to support its 110,000 employees across 51 countries.
Its We Care programme aims to provide employees with time, support and resources regarding their health and wellbeing. It will be deployed across all of Axa’s operating countries by the end of 2024 in compliance with local practices and legislation.
The programme consists of four policies. First, Axa has introduced its caregiver policy to provide employees caring for immediate family, who require eldercare or care due to a serious health condition or disability, with up to five days of fully paid leave.
Its domestic and sexual violence policy will offer any employee impacted by such a situation access to psychological support, specialist support services, flexible-working arrangements and five days of fully paid leave.
Alongside its existing 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for the primary parent, Axa will double the length of fully paid co-parent leave from four to eight weeks. It will also offer additional leave and flexible-working arrangements to support employees receiving and recovering from in-vitro fertilisation, or in the case of pregnancy loss.
Finally, Axa has expanded its Healthy You programme, originally launched in 2020, to include a supportive working environment for employees experiencing menstrual health conditions, menopause or andropause. This is alongside its existing psychological assistance, teleconsultation services, medical check-ups, and minimum financial coverage in the case of cancer.
Karima Silvent, group chief human resources officer at Axa, said: “At Axa, we care deeply about our people. It was crucial for us to build on top of the existing local services and benefits, a global programme that offers the same benefits to all our employees. Axa acknowledges that employees may have complex and varying lives and aims to provide a platform that empowers our employees to care for themselves and their loved ones, no matter where they are based in the world.”
