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Company Benefits at a Glance
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") |