The mortgage, a dinner out that would have cost too much and simple ordinary expenses: the 200 employees of the Acqua Sant’Anna company who unexpectedly received their fifteenth monthly salary, after the production bonus, know very well how to use the money. “He surprised us. We went home and the money was already in the account”, say the workers of the Vinadio plant, in the province of Cuneo, who received the money on the 26th of the month, on the day of Saint Anne, patron saint of the country, and on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the company.
“Eating a pizza in four costs too much now and we have often given up, but now we can do it without thinking about it, a few more times”, is the comment of a fifty-year-old. “I am 30 years old – explains another worker – and I would like to buy a house, so I put my money aside and with this extra salary I feel calmer”.
The founder, president and CEO of the company, Alberto Bertone, 55, from Turin, delivered a signed letter explaining that he had acted “to give concrete help to you and your family in this difficult period”.
“I’m happier with the employees – Bertone reveals – because I’ve thought so for many years, but doing it is another thing. I often go to the workers, they are used to it – he explains – and this time I did it by hand delivering the bags by surprise. “.
“Doctor Bertone gave me the letter on Monday, but I was busy and put it aside: I thought it was a normal internal communication, an invitation. Then he went over and said to me:” Read it, please “. I opened the envelope and went to look for him in the corridors to thank him “, says Francesco Beltritti, 37, of the quality office. “An even more beautiful gesture – says Alessandra Tosto, assistant to the commercial management – because unexpected. How will I use them? For a holiday”. “Nobody ever thinks of the workers – comments a 60-year-old employee close to retirement – he did it”. The 50-year-old veteran worker adds: “She told me earlier that I was going to take early retirement, then she gave me the letter. I thought of the young colleagues who just the other day were complaining that they would have to buy everything new, and expensive, for school. of the children “. “An award – concludes Marco Scossa, the company’s human resources manager – linked to the difficult conditions in the country. And the faces of the employees the other morning were a spectacle. Bertone had had this initiative in mind for some time, he spoke about it to the Board of Directors. administration and we completed it in a few days “.
Source: Ansa
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