AXA launches ‘We Care’ program for all employees worldwide

Today, leading global insurer and asset manager AXA goes one step further in its global health and well-being offering for its employees by announcing the launch of its ‘We Care’ program, designed to provide support to AXA’s workforce at different life stages and during moments that matter. The program aims to provide AXA’s 110,000 employees with the time, support, and resources to make personal and professional decisions with confidence.

The new program reflects an important evolution in the existing offering and enables AXA to progress further on its long-term commitment towards an inclusive and supportive global workplace culture.

The ‘We Care’ program will be one of AXA’s key milestones for its next strategic plan 2024-2026 and offered to all AXA’s employees across 51 countries. It will be deployed across all AXA entities by the end of 2024*, through four main pillars:

• Caregiver policy: A new policy has been introduced to provide employees caring for immediate family members who require eldercare or care due to a serious health condition and/or disability with up to five days of fully paid leave.
  
  
• Domestic and sexual violence policy: AXA stands against domestic, intra-familial and sexual violence. For any employee impacted by such a situation, AXA commits to providing access to psychological support, specialist support services, flexible working arrangements and five days of fully paid leave.
  
  
• Parental policy: Alongside the existing 16 weeks fully paid parent leave for the primary parent, the ‘We Care’ program will also see the length of fully paid co-parent leave double, from 4 weeks to 8 weeks. Additional leave and flexible working arrangements will be offered to support employees receiving and recovering from in-vitro fertilization, or in the case of pregnancy loss.
  
  
• Healthy You program: Launched in 2020, this health and well-being program provides AXA employees with benefits such as psychological assistance, teleconsultation services, medical check-ups, a minimum financial coverage in the case of cancer and more. Since 2022, more than 34,000 in-person medical check-ups have been offered to AXA employees over the age of 40. The program will now expand further to include a supportive working environment for employees experiencing menstrual health conditions, menopause, or andropause.

*In compliance with local practices and legislation. The program sets global minimum standards, and some entities may decide to exceed the amounts offered based on local context.