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Women have always found a congenial work environment at Tata Steel
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Women are empowered through reskilling |
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Tata Steel has played a pioneering role in the development of labour welfare norms in
Indian industry. These include company codes which are specifically aimed at the female
workforce. As early as 1928, the company introduced maternity benefits for the ladies.
More recently, under its Tejaswini programme the company encouraged women to retrain and
undertake jobs, which were hereto exclusively a man’s domain.On April 13, 2004 a historic Memorandum of
Settlement was signed, in the presence of Mrs Nidhi Khare, Labour Commissioner, Government
of Jharkhand, by the Company with the Tata Workers’ Union to include an additional
clause in the Works Standing Order of Tata Steel. Mr B Muthuraman, Managing Director, Dr T
Mukherjee, Deputy Managing Director, Steel, Mr A N Singh, Deputy Managing Director,
Corporate Services, Mr Niroop Mahanty, Vice President, HRM signed on behalf of Tata Steel,
while Mr R B B Singh, President, Tata Workers’ Union, Mr Raghunath Pandey, Deputy
President, Mr D K Singh, General Secretary, Mr K N P Singh, Hony Secretary, Supervisors
and Technicians Unit and Mr P N Singh, Joint Secretary Supervisors and Technicians Unit
signed on behalf of the Union.
With this inclusion, any act of sexual
misconduct is now punishable, if proved under the existing provisions. The inclusion is a
result of the Supreme Court Directive for the incorporation of such provisions in the
standing orders of companies arising out of the judgement in the case of Vishakha and
others Vs State of Rajasthan and others.
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