Tata Steel to continue salaries for Covid victims’ families-see the details
Tata Steel has announced that it will continue to pay monthly salary to the families of all employees who have passed away due to corona virus. In a statement issued on May 23, the Jamshedpur-based steel manufacturer explained that the firm will continue to pay these salaries till the retirement age of the deceased, which is 60 years. It also pledged to cover the education costs of the children of dead frontline workers until they graduate.
"Tata Steel stands together with a deep sense of loss at the sad demise of its beloved employees during this dreadful pandemic," the company said in a statement. After detailing the benefits of the firm's "best-in-class social security schemes" the statement concluded by saying that the "Tata Steel family stands stoically with all its people, committed to their security and well-being." Tata Steel has taken the path of #AgilityWithCare by extending social security schemes to the family members of the employees affected by #COVID19.
Tata Steel is the latest major employer in india to announce financial support plans for the families of its workers that have lost their lives to Covid-19. A second wave of the virus has ravaged the country's healthcare system in the past few weeks. Hospitals filled to capacity have been forced to turn away patients. Critical medicines and oxygen have run out in several areas. Even crematoriums have run out of space.