Hindustan Unilever Ltd has rolled out a policy to help employees cope with domestic abuse, underscoring how India Inc. is expanding the scope of its human resource policies to make them worker-friendly.Employees who are subject to, or are survivors of, acts of physical or emotional abuse outside the workplace can access urgent medical care and psychological counselling for themselves and their families, besides paid leave of up to 10 days, India’s largest consumer goods maker said. This policy seeks to protect and grant relief to employees who are survivors of abuse, or acts of physical or emotional abuse beyond the workplace, such as in their personal (home) or other public spaces, including online, HUL said. The policy will cover more than 20,000 employees of HUL, including white-collar and blue-collar workers. Globally, Unilever launched the framework in October across all the markets it operates in. The move follows reports of rising instances of domestic violence, as employees started working from home since the worldwide lockdowns imposed to combat covid-19. One in three women and one in seven men encounter abuse at some point in their lifetime, according to HUL.
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