1.
Taiwan employers to pay for overtime work assigned over
instant messaging apps
The arbitration determined that employees must be compensated
for work assigned on LINE or Whatsapp, outside regular work hours.
All
work and no play is a common phenomenon among the working population of the
present day as advanced communication technology and staying connected at all
times, makes it difficult to draw boundaries between work time and personal
time— they keep intersecting. E-mails, messages or group discussions on instant
messaging apps, after work hours, are fairly prevalent and one cannot avoid
them.
Considering
this as serious work that should be compensated for, Taiwan’s New Taipei City
Labour Affairs Department’s arbitration commission recently ruled that
employers must pay overtime compensation to employees for work assigned via
instant messaging apps, such as LINE and WhatsApp during non-work hours. This
is a first of its kind ruling in Taiwan.
2.
Parliament passes
bill to enhance maternity leave to 26 weeks, EY follows suit
The new maternity benefits apply for up to two surviving
children.
Bringing a
long-pending proposal into action, the Lok Sabha, yesterday passed the
Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016, increasing the maternity benefits
from 12 weeks to 26 weeks.
The official press
release by the Ministry of Labour & Employment, said that the amendment “includes
increasing maternity benefit to woman covered under the Maternity Benefit Act,
1961 from 12 weeks to 26 weeks up to two surviving children in order to allow
the mother to take care of the child during her/his most formative stage”.
In addition, the new
benefits also provide a maternity benefit of 12 weeks to commissioning mothers
and adopting mothers, facilitating ‘work from home’ to a mother with mutual
consent of the employee and the employer, making it mandatory in respect of
establishments having fifty or more employees , to have the facility of
crèche—either individually or as a shared common facility— within such a
distance as may be prescribed by rules. The women are to be allowed four visits
to the crèche daily, including the interval for rest allowed to them. Also,
every establishment is to intimate in writing and electronically to every
woman, at the time of her initial appointment, about the benefits available
under the Act.
3.
SBI allows employees to work from home.
The
Board of the bank has recently approved the 'Work from Home' policy enabling
its employees to work remotely using mobile devices.
Giving its employees
a reason to cheer on International Women’s Day, State Bank of India launched a
new facility to enable its staff to work from home. This came as happy news for
all the employees, especially women, who at times juggle household, childcare,
family and work.
With the help of
technology, it is being made possible now for employees to work anywhere,
anytime, allowing women in particular to stay tuned to work without having to
be physically present in office. State-run SBI also has more than 22 per cent
—46,000-47,000— women employees, and the bank is taking an initiative to give
them greater opportunities to make a full-fledged career.
In line with that,
the Board of the bank has recently approved the 'Work from Home' policy
allowing remote working to its employees, using mobile devices. This helps them
address any urgent requirement they may have, that prevents their travelling to
work.
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