Domestic Abuse Policy

👉 FMCG major Hindustan Unilever (HUL) has taken a major step towards helping its employees combat domestic abuse.

🔺In a first for India Inc, HUI has coded a policy to protect its staff from domestic abuse.

🔺This is significant as it extends the responsibility of a company towards employees’ well-being beyond the office & into the employee’s personal and home life.

🔺HUL has issued this policy at a time when a significant number of its workforce is working from home.

🔺The HUL policy aims to protect and provide relief to staff members who are survivors of abuse, or acts of emotional & physical abuse beyond the office.

👉 During the COVID-19 induced lockdowns, cases of domestic violence also rose substantially.

🔺The complaints received by the National Commission for Women (NCW) related to domestic abuse against women doubled in the first month of the lockdown.

🔺The number of complaints went from 123 between February 17-March 22 to 250 between March 23-April 22.

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