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Company Benefits at a Glance
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Company health insurance: Here is a look inside the service counter area of the company health insurance fund in 1959.
1866 | The first factory physician is employed | |
1871 | A workers’ pension fund is established | |
1872 | Construction starts for the first residential center for workers (Hemshof colony) | |
1875 | The sick fund is established | |
1884 | The company health insurance is established | |
1892 | Construction starts for Europe’s first public sanatorium for lung disease in Dannenfels | |
1900 | Opening of the Company Library | |
1908 | Vacation for workers is introduced | |
1913 | Today’s Feierabendhaus is opened | |
1921 | Start of the cultural program | |
1922 | Introduction of company welfare | |
1951 | Sick pay is introduced | |
1986 | The program “Parents and Child” allows parents to take longer leave after the birth of a child | |
2005 | The Learning Center is opened in Ludwigshafen for individual further education | |
2005 | Opening of the nursery "LuKids" | |
2006 | BASF responds to the change in demographics with “Generations@Work” | |
2013 | Opening of the employee center for work-life management (LuMit") |