GENDER EQUALITY POLICY ACCORDING TO UNI/PdR 125:2022
Icon Collection Group
Companies: Icon Collection, The Sense Experience Resort, Park Hotel Marinetta, Hotel Botticelli.
The Management of the Ficcanterri Group, active in the high-end hospitality and hotel sector through Icon Collection, The Sense Experience Resort, Park Hotel Marinetta and Hotel Botticelli, has always been attentive to the evolution of social values as well as the market. It implements a policy aimed at promoting values related to diversity, inclusion, and gender equality.
This choice is consistent with the Group’s mission: to offer authentic, sustainable, and inclusive hospitality experiences, placing people – employees, guests, and stakeholders – at the center, and fostering relationships based on respect, listening, and the appreciation of differences.
In line with this vision, Management has decided to establish and implement a management system in accordance with UNI/PdR 125:2022 – Guidelines on gender equality management systems, to strengthen its concrete commitment to equality and fairness within the Group’s companies.
The Management of the Ficcanterri Group, in collaboration with the Gender Equality Committee, therefore adopts a policy aimed at:
- valuing and protecting diversity,
- promoting equal opportunities in the workplace,
- pursuing gender equality,
- fostering women’s empowerment.
Commitments undertaken by the Ficcanterri Group
Management undertakes to:
- Guarantee equal access to managerial roles based on skills, including in external representation (conferences, events, panels).
- Ensure pay equity based on skills, experience, and responsibilities, eliminating gender pay gaps.
- Create an inclusive working environment attentive to employees’ psycho-physical well-being.
- Support corporate welfare through flexible hours, remote work, and dedicated benefits.
- Promote and support initiatives, events, and campaigns for gender equality and inclusion.
- Ensure balanced gender representation in public communication and participation moments (events, panels, public meetings).
- Promote inclusive content through the Group’s digital channels (websites, social media, official communications).
- Provide continuous training and awareness to all staff on: inclusive language, gender stereotypes and bias, harassment, mobbing.
- Prevent and address any form of discrimination, harassment, or unequal treatment in the workplace.
- Communicate, internally and externally, its commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Implementation methods
The Ficcanterri Group undertakes to ensure that this policy is:
- disseminated and shared with all staff and stakeholders;
- subject to dedicated training for management;
- monitored, verified, and periodically updated, based on results, organizational changes, and critical analysis;
- coordinated by the Gender Equality Committee, appointed by Management and composed of professionals with organizational expertise and knowledge in diversity and inclusion.
Strategic plan and KPI
To implement this policy, Management has defined a strategic plan with related KPIs, based on the 6 areas indicated by UNI/PdR 125:2022:
- Culture and strategy – Promote an inclusive environment, respectful of diversity and oriented towards overcoming stereotypes and gender discrimination.
- Governance – Ensure governance that encourages minority gender participation and introduces mechanisms to counter exclusion.
- HR processes – Manage recruitment, development, career, and termination processes inclusively and without discrimination.
- Growth opportunities for women – Foster equitable, transparent, gender-neutral professional development paths.
- Gender pay equity – Monitor and reduce possible pay disparities, including benefits.
- Parenthood protection and work-life balance – Support work-life balance and parenthood policies for all genders.
