Employee Welfare & Wellbeing
ICL has various mechanisms to support the welfare and wellbeing of its employees. The company’s approach is holistic, incorporating both development and support on a wide range of aspects.
Israel
In Israel, ICL has in-house professional social workers that support both managers and employees. ICL’s Social Support gives tools and support for employees and their families. Any employee that has a special need, such as health issues, personal or family issues, personal emergency, financial dilemmas and so on, can reach out for the support of ICL’s Social Support. Incorporating emotional support, utilizing social rights and connecting to available community support helps getting individuals in need, back to a functioning and independent life routine.
In addition, ICL employees can contact an external service where psychologists and trained professionals can help with various issues. The service is anonymous and confidential the identity of the users of the services will not be known to anyone from the company or outside the company. The service is free for the first two meetings and is subsidized for the next few.
ICL enables a generous wellbeing benefits to its employees, throughout the collective agreement benefits or the personal contracts wellbeing annual plan.
Responding to COVID-19
ICL initiated a new volunteer program where employees volunteered to be in contact with ICL retirees. In addition, ICL with elderly parents received a gift. Read more on ICL’s response to COVID-19.
Preparing for Retirement
Transitioning from being employed to retirement is a major change for ICL’s employees and their families. Being properly prepared for retirement is extremely important and enables an optimal transition from a life of work to a fulfilling life in the aftermath of a career.
As an organization that sees its employees as critical to its success, ICL invests significant efforts to give its employees the best tools to handle retirement.
In Israel, ICL operated a unique program to support employees that are retiring. The program includes about seven, full day, meetings for employees and their partners. ICL sees great importance in the participation of the partners of the employees as well, as retirement affects the whole family.
In each meeting, a different factor of retirement is discussed via presentations, simulations and hands on practice. The discussed issues include: handling change, financial implications, family and friends, as well as health and wellbeing.
Europe
In Europe, ICL has engaged the services of a third-party wellbeing coaching consultant. Focusing mainly on Dutch employees, but the service is now available to employees in all of Europe.
This service (‘HeyCoach’) helps people if they are struggling with either mental health issues, work life balance or specific stress concerns. ICL opened this service to all employees during the recent COVID-19 situation. It was made available to help ICL’s employees address any wellbeing issues that they may have.
The HeyCoach service is a secure, confidential and anonymous service offered to ICL’s employees, in the EU, by an external company. They offer 1-1 virtual support by qualified and experienced coaches and organizational psychologists to employees who feel unbalanced and/or are finding it difficult to manage their current work life situation. The service is completely anonymous and confidential and is provided for free.
U.S.A
ICL provides an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and all family members regardless if they pay for ICL benefits or not. This provides professional counseling (video, phone or in-person) for crisis management (weather disaster, terrorist attack, pandemic), relationship support, mental health, addictions/rehab, financial issues, self-improvement, stress, trauma/grief/loss. They also can come onsite for crisis management.
ICL U.S.A also runs a wellness program devoted to improving health and overall wellbeing of employees & spouses (who have ICL medical insurance). This program provides tools, motivation, and support to assist the journey to a healthier life.
The company also provides retirement planning tools & sessions through our 401(k) plan administrator.
Brazil
ICL has just started an EAP similar to that in the US, that is coordinated with the government’s (national) benefits.
