Luis Ceriotto
08/10/2021 17:10
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 08/10/2021 5:13 PM
The insurance company
Grupo Gaman
, whose name had emerged months ago for having paid for the trip of dozens of its employees to Miami to get vaccinated against Covid, now announced another high-profile decision: a
100%
salary increase
for all its employees with a seniority greater than two years.
According to the company, this benefit reaches "a great majority" of its 155 employees.
This percentage of increase
more than doubles
the parity that the companies in the sector negotiated with the Insurance Union, which had announced a significant salary increase, of 42.68% in nine months.
"Grupo Gaman (...) decided to reinforce its decision to strengthen the team that allowed them to grow in recent years, and just as in the month of May it sent all employees over 40 to get vaccinated, now it took the determination to
make a 100% increase to employees with more than 2 years of experience
(which are the large part of the workforce), "the company said in a press release.
Grupo Gaman building in downtown Buenos Aires.
"The decision is framed in line with giving a response and accompanying all collaborators, in the face of the difficulties experienced during the pandemic and in a context of price increases. Although Gaman had already been offering increases
above the parity
, in this If so, the decision is to double the salary, "the statement added.
Headed by Juan Manuel Manganaro, the Gaman Group has existed since 1998 in the insurance business.
The news that he had paid for the health trip of 30 of his collaborators arose almost by chance, while the businessman announced to the newspaper
La Nación
that he was buying a safety and hygiene company,
EHS
, and another insurance company,
Asset Broker
.
He also has a technology company.
Juan Manuel Manganaro, head of the Gaman Group, today.
Such was the repercussion of that news that, in the company, they say that they received more than 1,700 calls in a single day.
This time, already more seasoned in the task of raising the profile, together with the increase they announced a closing of floodgates: they said that the directors of the company promised
not to listen to any offer
from the competition for a period of at least three years.
The group has 155 direct employees, but also manages a network of 500 insurance producers.
According to them, during 2020 they
grew 50%
while many of their competitors
were shrinking
.
The group is a sum of insurance companies in different segments:
Gaman Insurance Broker, Alea Insurance Broker, Asset Broker, Quore Vida y Ahorro, NextStep Tecnología, EHS and Fundación Bruna.
According to them, they have more than 140,000 clients, 16 branches in different parts of the country and a network of 12
brokers
, 28 organizers and more than 500 producers throughout the country.
At the beginning of the year, they acquired Asset Broker, another strong player in the market, which allowed them to strengthen their position as one of the main national equity brokers.
And later, the group of companies was joined by
EHS
, one of the leaders in safety and hygiene, a sector that also grew strongly during the pandemic.