2012/3/14 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) <[email protected]>: > On Wednesday 14 Mar 2012, Roopesh P Raj wrote: >> [snip] >> Here the Govt. has decided that late night transportation is the duty >> of companies when it is the companies who are benefiting out of >> their employees work. Which is a very fare thing to do. It is not >> that men are safe to travel at odd hours in a place like Bangalore. >> There are many crimes getting reported against men also. Right thing >> to do is to make it mandatory for the companies to provide safe >> transport to male employees also who are working for the company at >> odd hours. > > That's fair enough. My original point (which of course has got mutated > by people into their own personal anti-capitalistic, anti-corporate or > pro-socialism peeve) is that laws that penalise organisations for hiring > women will, eventually, result in fewer women being hired and increase > gender inequality. Any form of privilege or reservation increases > inequality and sharpens discrimination, and in general any special > privilege or reservation is an admission of failure on the part of the > state. This is just one more example. The only logical next step is, > once hiring starts dropping, reservations for women in IT jobs. Let the > State tell us how to run our businesses. >
What about the "reservation" enjoyed by IT industry in terms of huge tax rebates and other freebies ? They can use some of that to provide night time transport for employees. It will do good for morale of knowledge workers and thus indirectly benefit the concerned organizations. If one has a family of employees and ones friends are employees as well then he/she can understand the importance of safe travel post 8 p.m Its a trivial facility that the company can provide. _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
