Chandigarh Administration has released guidelines for employers to follow in order to ensure the safety and security of female employees who work late at night.
According to an order issued by District Magistrate Mandip Singh Brar states that BPOs, also known as call centres, corporate houses, media houses, businesses, or organisations, to provide cab services to employees for the purpose of picking them up and dropping them off from their homes to their workplaces.
He said that women workers who travel late at night are vulnerable to crime and criminal acts by anti-social elements.
Brar directed all such organisations to maintain the data of all employees, security staff, cab drivers, and contractual workers working with them, for access by the police as and when necessary, to ensure the security and safety of employees, especially women employees, who work late hours. Only hire security staff from approved companies if at all necessary.
Ensure that women employees are not forced to ride alone with the cab driver and that each cab carrying women employees has a properly checked security guard or a male colleague on board during the night hours from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.
Choose the path so that a woman employee is not the first to be picked up or the last to be dropped as much as possible. Install a GPS system in the cabs that these employees, especially women employees, use for transportation.
