San Marino. Dim: “Benefit companies: greater job protection and development opportunities”
“In the council session that has just ended, the draft law relating to employment was examined in second reading, which will soon enter into force”.
Thus begins a reflection of Tomorrow-Motus Liberi focused on the issue of benefit corporations.
“On the text, in the context of the discussion in the Finance Commission, we were as always an active part in presenting numerous proposals, some considered interesting and implemented by the Government itself, such as for example the extension also to second-degree relatives of the possibility of providing support in the context of family solidarity activities or the elimination of the prohibition for directors of single shareholder companies to be qualified as subordinate workers.
Other proposals that we then presented directly to the Commission: 1) a framework discipline for the recognition of greater protection in child labour, opening up, among other things, the possibility of working on weekends even during the school year; 2) the simplification of the communication obligations envisaged on part-time matters relating to flexible working hours, with the hope of encouraging any form of work which allows for combining parenthood and work; 3) the reduction of the contributions foreseen for occasional support in the context of family solidarity, which thanks to our contribution and our insistence has significantly decreased also as a result of the work of the Great and General Council.
We are therefore very satisfied that the majority, even if as a last resort, has accepted our appeal to review the entire article and limit the taxation linked to this type of activity, finally recognizing the spirit of solidarity for which it was born. Following the agreements reached, the percentage was quantified on a flat-rate basis, for all types of operating contributions, at 10% of the territorial average salary, replacing the 30% of the previous version.
The Industry, Crafts and Commerce Secretariat then examined the drafted text in first reading, with the support and collaboration of D-ML, which introduces the new figure of “benefit companies” into our legal system: a tool that allows the overcoming of the classic approach of doing business, a qualitative leap in the way of understanding the economic activity, combining the classic balance with a so-called measurable and rewardable ethical balance. In essence, it is a question of incentivising companies which, in the exercise of their economic activity, also have the objective of improving the working conditions of their employees as well as the natural and social environment in which they operate, enhancing the principle of meritocracy: implement automation and digitization processes, the reduction of emissions and greater use of renewables, encourage the creation of company kindergartens and interventions in favor of working mothers. These are just a few possible examples.
It is undoubtedly a step forward, towards a new way of conceiving the economic development that will characterize the immediate future and the world to come”.