{"id":13386,"date":"2020-08-09T07:13:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T07:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13386"},"modified":"2020-08-09T07:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T07:13:46","slug":"zomato-introduces-period-leave-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13386","title":{"rendered":"Zomato introduces &#8216;period leave&#8217; for employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Zomato-flat-logo-780x470.png\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"Zomato\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p><strong>New Delhi<\/strong>: Indian food delivery company Zomato on Saturday instituted a policy which would give it\u2019s female employees up to 10 days of menstrual leave per year, as part of an effort to combat what it said was stigma around the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Zomato is the most high profile organisation in India where menstruation is still taboo to some.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere shouldn\u2019t be any shame or stigma attached to applying for a period leave,\u201d Zomato chief executive Deepinder Goyal said in an email to staff on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should feel free to tell people on internal groups, or emails that you are on your period leave for the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2008, Zomato is a restaurant aggregator and food delivery company. The company has more than 5,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, India\u2019s Supreme Court overturned a decades-long ban on women of menstrual age entering the Sabarimala temple in the southern state of Kerala, leading to a nationwide debate about women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google_news_bar\"> Subscribe us on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMNfwhQsw6qSDAw?oc=3&amp;ceid=IN:en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Google News\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-news\" alt=\"The Siasat Daily - Google News\" width=\"130\" height=\"35\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/themes\/sahifa\/images\/googlenews.svg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-news\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.siasat.com\/wp-content\/themes\/sahifa\/images\/googlenews.svg\" alt=\"The Siasat Daily - Google News\" width=\"130\" height=\"35\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.siasat.com\/zomato-introduces-period-leave-for-employees-1942143\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Indian food delivery company Zomato on Saturday instituted a policy which would give it\u2019s female employees up to 10 days of menstrual leave per year, as part of an effort to combat what it said was stigma around the issue. 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