Food Delivery Service Swiggy Offers 2 Days Paid Time-Off During Periods To Women Delivery Partners
As part of the policy by Swiggy, the women delivery partners can avail of two-day leaves every month and those who do so will be provided with a minimum earnings guarantee for that duration.
In a very progressive move, food-delivery giant Swiggy has announced a two-day paid monthly period time-off policy for female delivery partners. Swiggy onboarded its first female delivery partner in Pune and currently has over 1000 women delivery partners.
Swiggy has said that it has been striving to build inclusivity and diversity across the platform ever since it has roped in female delivery partners. The company believes that creating a comfortable environment for women would encourage more women to consider delivering with Swiggy.
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"Discomfort from being out and about on the road while menstruating is probably one of the most underreported reasons why many women don't consider delivery to be a viable gig," Mihir Shah, Vice President of Operations at Swiggy, said in a blog post-Thursday. "To support them through any menstruation-related challenges, we've introduced a no-questions-asked, two-day paid monthly period time-off policy for all our regular female delivery partners," he revealed.
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Swiggy said it onboarded its first female delivery partner in 2016 and has, since then, been committed to increasing the number of women delivery partners in its workforce. In its blog post, the company outlined some of its recent efforts to create an environment that would encourage more women to look upon delivering with Swiggy as a viable option.
People had a lot of nice reactions towards this progressive move :
24% of the women delivery partners at Swiggy are earning an income for the first time in their lives.
¡ª Krishna Mishra ? (@kas8_m) October 21, 2021
How important is that - The Financial Freedom!
Also, @swiggy_in has rolled out a 2-day paid Period time-off for its women delivery partners.
Read - https://t.co/RqxOmwfeqv pic.twitter.com/KunZepCxH5
@swiggy_in to give 2 days paid monthly period leave to female delivery partners.
¡ª Prachi Goyal (@prachigoyal34) October 21, 2021
Isn't it amazing? ?#swiggy #women #power
Two days paid period break for female employees.
¡ª Sulthan ? (@SulthanPhD) October 21, 2021
Good initiative @swiggy_in ??#swiggy #female #welfare #food #India #remuneration pic.twitter.com/ir2u0t4bej
Huge respect #Swiggy for providing two days paid leave during periods for women!!
¡ª Mohanapriya (@Monaa_here) October 22, 2021
Great Initiative!! ?
#Swiggy providing two day paid period leaves for female delivery agent's.
¡ª Kowshik Karumbaiah ? (@Kowshik_09) October 22, 2021
Really a GOOD move.
hopefully many companies follow the same.
Great Initiative @swiggy_in Food delivery platform Swiggy brings forth a two-day period leave policy to support its women employees on ¡®that day of the month¡¯.
¡ª Ravi Kiran Nammi (@nammiravikiran) October 22, 2021
@swiggy_in to give 2 days paid monthly period leave to female delivery partners.
¡ª Prachi Goyal (@prachigoyal34) October 21, 2021
Isn't it amazing? ?#swiggy #women #power
Besides their period time-off policy, Swiggy is also working with electric mobility partners to facilitate EV cycles and bikes on rent to help women who don't have access to vehicles.
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