DCW issues notice to SBI, seeks withdrawal of employment guidelines for pregnant women
The Hindu
SBI’s new rules state that a woman who is joining the service and is over three months pregnant will be considered temporarily unfit
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on January 29 issued a notice to SBI seeking withdrawal of its will be considered "temporarily unfit" and she may be allowed to join within four months after delivery.
State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lender, could not immediately be reached for comment.
"State Bank of India seems to have issued guidelines preventing women who are over 3 months pregnant from joining service & have termed them as ‘temporarily unfit’. This is both discriminatory and illegal. We have issued a Notice to them seeking withdrawal of this anti women rule," DCW Chief Swati Maliwal tweeted.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.