Flipkart staff to get adoption aid
Plan aims to provide adopting parents “reasonable time to establish a bond with their child”
By : govind vijaykumar
Update: 2015-07-14 02:35 GMT
Hyderabad: In what is being hailed as a game-changing move, online retailing major Flipkart on Monday announced an adoption assistance programme for its employees.
The plan aims to provide adopting parents “reasonable time to establish a bond with their child”. A likely first for any Indian corporate, Flipkart’s staffers are now eligible for paid adoption leave and Rs 50,000 in adoption allowance “to use towards legal, agency and regulatory costs or any other costs that may arise during the adoption process”.
According to a release from the company sent to the Deccan Chronicle, adoptive mothers are given the same amount of time as a maternity leave policy (six months paid leave plus four months of flexible working hours) and adoptive fathers meanwhile, are eligible for six weeks of paid leave.
Additionally, if the adopted child is over 12 months of age, women staffers can get up to three months’ paid leave and an additional four months of flexible working hours.