Certifikat Družini prijazno podjetje

Beginnings

The “Family Friendly Enterprise” represents a significant novelty in the Slovenian business environment. Sociological research conducted within the scope of the project by the Faculty of Social Sciences (University of Ljubljana) demonstrated that Slovenian managers do not regard balancing work and family as an issue to be discussed in the workplace. Rather, it is treated as something that the employees need to manage by themselves and ought not to raise at work with their supervisors.

The goal of introducing the certificate “Family Friendly Enterprise” was

• to sensitize businesses about negative business impact of discriminating (potential) parents in the workplace as well as in the labour market,
• to provide businesses with tools for implementation of such HR policies that enable better balancing of work and family for their employees,
• to publicly recognize those business with a positive attitude to provide options of balancing work and family of their employees

The certification methodology is based on the system “European work & family audit”, developed by the German organization “Berufundfamilie”. The Slovenian DP adopted the German methodology to the specifics of the Slovenian economic and legislative framework.