In a first for a major corporate house, engineering, procurement and construction major Larsen and Toubro on Thursday announced a one-day paid menstrual leave for women employees.<\/p>\n
The move will benefit about 5,000 women employees at the city-headquartered company.<\/p>\n
The company’s chairman and managing director S N Subrahmanyan announced the move at a company event to celebrate International Women’s Day, sources said.<\/p>\n
Exact details of how to implement the announcement will be formulated by the relevant officials shortly, they said.<\/p>\n
The announcement is only applicable to the employees of the parent L&T and not for its subsidiaries engaged in financial services or technology, they said.<\/p>\n
L&T has 60,000 employees, of which 9 per cent or about 5,000 are women, who will benefit from the move, which gets implemented immediately.<\/p>\n
The announcement comes within weeks of the company’s top leader facing flak for comments asking employees to put in 90-hours a week and not keep staring at their wives.<\/p>\n
The company had later defended the remarks made during an internal virtual meeting as being in line with its nation-building mandate.<\/p>\n
Some companies like Swiggy and Zomato have made similar announcements on menstrual leaves in the past, but major business houses are yet to announce similar initiatives.<\/p>\n
Four states – Bihar, Odisha, Sikkim and Kerala – have made provisions for menstrual leaves for their employees.<\/p>\n
The Supreme Court had last year suggested the government formulate a policy on the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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