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September 7, 2010 11:18 AM EDT
Software companies in India have adopted a new human resource practice of granting additional days of bereavement leave to their employees to help them overcome grief after the loss of a loved family member, The Times of India said in a report.
As is the practice in the US where about 90 percent of the enterprises grant bereavement leave to their employees to stay away from work following the death of a loved family member, Indian companies are following suit in adopting this HR practice.
Employees are given three days of paid bereavement leave in most cases while a few other companies grant even five days of leave and some others grant additional time off without pay.
India’s largest software company Tata Consultancy Services Ltd has a bereavement leave facility in place. In fact, the report quoted an unnamed TCS spokesperson as saying that the company does allow its employees to take adequate leave to handle the trauma and overcome grief following the death of an immediate family member.
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“Case to case, the number of days of leave required by the employees vary, it could be many days, up to five days or more. This is given in addition to the existing, scheduled leave quota,’’ a TCS spokesperson was quoted as saying.
India’s second largest software services company Infosys Technologies allows its staff to take off for a day, on the demise of their spouse, parent, sibling or children following the introduction of bereavement leave facility last month though Infoscions are seeking bereavement leave for at least three days.
“It is a one-day additional leave facility given to employees who suffer the loss of any immediate family member . Many global companies already have such leave facilities ,’’ the report quoted Infosys HR head T V Mohandas Pai as saying.
While multinationals like Cisco and Thomson Reuters grant four or more days of bereavement leave respectively, Adobe has multiple days of leave to its employees who lose their loved ones.
The report said most companies follow a narrow definition of who is a close family member and if it can consider giving paid leave to its employees in case of death of only spouse, child, parent, grandparent, brother or sister.
Indians perform rituals and religious rites which are time consuming and that takes several days to complete. A typical Indian family has to deal with post-death issues that include arranging a funeral service, dealing with personal belongings, property and settling of wills, besides coping with the loss of a loved one.
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