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IMA promotes respect for work, workers and their trade union representatives, fighting against all forms of discrimination and guaranteeing full compliance with fundamental human rights, according to the principles contained in the UN’s Declaration on Human Rights.
The Group promotes inclusion, integration, equal opportunities and reciprocity as elements that can enhance the value of diversity, removing the economic and social obstacles that restrict the freedom of the individual in application of the principle of substantial equality and respect for individual dignity.

IMA protects the health and safety of the people working in the Group and in the supply chain: the quality of work environments and the well-being of people are values that go beyond compliance with current legislation. IMA’s management is committed to guaranteeing them to all IMA’s companies, by assessing risks to health, training, monitoring systems, prevention activities and continuous investments in preventive maintenance program for plants and infrastructures. Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, IMA promptly established a Crisis Committee composed of HR management and union representatives that even acted early, with respect to the rules and recommendations communicated by the competent administrations, in full awareness that the safety of people takes priority over earning any form of lawful profit.

IMA encourages the participation and responsible involvement of employees and collaborators, also through social dialogue, ensuring freedom of association; it promotes confrontation with trade unions to identify and evaluate together with other operators in the sector the impacts of modern challenges related to the world of work such as, for example, the processes of digitisation. IMA takes into account the development and social cohesion needs of the communities in which it operates by fostering employment and social inclusion, directly or through collaborations with production companies and institutions that operate to favour the employment of weak categories of workers and youth employment.

In this sense, IMA has implemented specific policies for the protection of human rights and activated control tools in the supply chain through its Suppliers’ Code of Conduct.

Specifically, approximately 18% of new suppliers who worked for the first time during the year for IMA companies in the world had to undergo an assessment based on social criteria (such as working conditions and respect for human rights). 

Given the sensitivity of this topic in some countries, IMA companies around the world delivered a total of 468 hours of training on policies and procedures in the area of human rights, reaching 6.5% of the entire workforce or 17.7% of the IMA personnel outside of Italy.

IMA considers training and skills development a strategic asset. The educational rationale does not focus only on certain categories of employees, but it is based on the idea that lifelong training must involve the entire population, guaranteeing a harmonious and synergistic growth of the Company’s distinctive skills. Training therefore aims to develop and maintain people’s skills, while continuing to ensure support for the development and implementation of new technologies. 

Additionally, 8 hours of cross-functional training in the area of soft skills were made available in Italy during 2021. Employees can access these e-learning sessions at any time.

The Training Maintenance process guarantees continuous updating of employees’ skills by planning the educational path over several years, in line with the evolution of the Company’s business. 

Overall, in 2021, around137,655 training hours were provided, increasing by about 16,8%. Globally, the average number of hours’ training per employee was 22. Most of the training was dedicated to the development of soft skills (35.3% of total hours delivered), but the training catalogue also includes courses on design (12.6%), safety (19.1%), production (9.9%), quality/standards (7.2%), ICT (5.1%) and languages (10.5%). The areas of intervention are divided into more than 300 courses in the Training Catalogue.

IMA is attentive to the issue of equal opportunities, despite operating in a production and industrial environment that, by history and tradition, tends to employ much fewer women than men: women account for 18% of the total workforce; 93% of female staff works in white-collar positions, staff services and in the commercial areas. In terms of remuneration, the provisions laid down in national contracts and current legislation in force in the countries where the company operates are applied.

CAPOD

IMA has joined the CapoD Network, a community of firms in the Bologna area which, in close cooperation with local public institutions, pursues the strategic objectives of equal opportunities, fight against discrimination and support for welfare and conciliation issues even in traditionally more complex sectors. CapoD focuses on the dissemination of good social responsibility practices also among small and medium-sized enterprises. IMA’s workforce includes people in protected categories as required by current legislation: to this end, for example in Italy, the Company has entered into agreements with the relevant entities.

During 2021, IMA companies supported numerous social, cultural, education and sports activities, making grants and donations for a total of 1.768 million of euros.

This amount includes the resources allocated to social responsibility projects, expenses incurred for the benefit of employees (such as for sports groups or other corporate initiatives), and fees paid by IMA to join representative or industry associations.

As part of a project of inclusion and job placement, the company mainly uses hearing impaired staff, supported by LIS Certified Interpreters (experts in Italian Sign Language).

DIGIDOC currently has 19 employees, split between the locations in Castenaso and Ozzano dell’Emilia (Italy), with the support of 3 LIS interpreters.

DIGIDOC S.r.l.
Registered Office:
Via Emilia 428-442
40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia (Bologna) • Italy
Tel. +39 051 6514111 • Fax +39 051 6514613
PEC address: digidoc@legalmail.it

Social capital EUROS 10.000,00 • REA Number: BO – 524569 • Reg. Imprese Bo e C.F. e P.I. 03506411200

Company under IMA S.p.A. management and coordination
Via Emilia 428-442 • 40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia (Bologna) • Italy • Reg. Imprese Bo e C.F. 00307140376