Tata’s big initiative, will give up to 25 percent ‘reservation’ in jobs to these people!
Tata Group has always been at the forefront in creating employee friendly workplace in India. Tata Steel, a Tata Group company, started providing facilities like crèche facilities, health services and even provident fund for women at the workplace about 100 years ago. Now this group company is going to focus on giving priority in jobs to certain communities of the society. In a way, the company is going to make ‘reservation’ of 25 percent in jobs for these people.
Yes, Tata Steel says that it will give 25 percent space in its total workforce to people from gender minority (LGBTQ+), disabled and deprived communities. This work will be completed in the next few years.
However, Tata Steel had started hiring people from the LGBTQ+ community in its Jamshedpur factory a few years ago. The special thing was that all these jobs were given on the shop floor of the factory.
‘Try to make everyone feel respected’
Regarding this initiative of Tata Steel, the company’s Chief Diversity Officer Jaya Singh Panda says, “We believe in developing a workplace where people of every gender feel valued, respected and empowered. Diversity is our greatest strength. “Continuing this campaign is sure to lead to success in the long term, this is the key to innovation.”
Regarding this, a transgender employee working at the company’s Jamshedpur plant, on the condition of anonymity, said, “We feel very safe in the company, because our colleagues are friendly and helpful. The company has developed many infrastructures for us including separate toilets.
Jobs given to 113 transgenders
The company official claimed that Tata Steel is one of the first companies in the country which has started a special recruitment campaign to hire transgender talents. The company has employed 113 people from the transgender community in manufacturing, operations and maintenance, excavation and service departments. These employees are working in the company’s Noamundi, West Bokaro, Kolkata, Kharagpur, Kalinga Nagar and Jamshedpur premises.
The official said, “The company will continue its campaign.” “It aims to include 25 percent people from diverse groups in its workforce in the next few years.”
A special story is also related to Sudha Murthy.
By the way, an incident of Tata Group changing its policy for the society is also related to Sudha Murthy. Infosys founder N. Narayana Murthy’s wife Sudha Murthy once told in an interview that during her younger days she applied for a job in Tata Group’s Telco.
Later they came to know that girls cannot apply for this. Angered by this, he wrote a letter to the then Tata Group Chairman JRD Tata and opposed this rule of the company. He told that after this Tata Group changed its policy and made it women friendly.
