Tata Steel To Continue Salary For Families Of Employees Who Die Of Covid

"Huge respect for Tata Steel," wrote one Twitter user after the announcement

Tata Steel has announced social security schemes for the family members of employees affected by Covid-19. The company announced on Sunday that under the scheme, if an employee dies of Covid, their family would receive their last-drawn salary till the time the employee would have turned 60. "Tata Steel's best-in-class social security schemes will help ensure an honourable standard of living for their families, whereby the family will get the last drawn salary till 60 years of age of the deceased employee/nominee," the company said in a statement released on social media. They will also be able to avail medical benefits and housing facilities, the statement added.  #TataSteel has taken the path of #AgilityWithCare by extending social security schemes to the family members of the employees affected by #COVID19. While we do our bit, we urge everyone to help others around them in any capacity possible to get through these tough times. pic.twitter.com/AK3TDHyf0H Tata steel announces1. Family to get last drawn salary till 60 years of age of deceased employee2. Education expense of children till graduation.Huge respect @TataSteelLtdProud shareholder! pic.twitter.com/4MZdlLEQrm Thank you🙏 @RNTata2000 for inspiring the corporate world again. Tata Steel would continue to pay monthly salary to the family of all employees who die due to COVID-19 till their retirement age along with medical benefits and residential facilities. pic.twitter.com/S8Hd5ZKouu No other employer other than Tata's can even think of this.1) Salary till 60yrs of the deceased2) Plus Medical3) Plus Accommodation4) Plus Children's Education#Respect#ForeverAndAlways#covidhelp#covid19#positivity#tata#tatasteelpic.twitter.com/eY0VTu58Y3 #TataSteel steel would continue to pay monthly salary to the family of all employees who dies due to #corona. Till the retirement of deceased i.e 60 year's. Salute to you sir @RNTata2000 In a first of its kind decision taken by any corpotate steel Tata Steel has rolled out a social security scheme for its employees, under which,nearest kin of an employee who dies of Covid, will get the last drawn salary till 60 years of age of the deceased along with the housing pic.twitter.com/E5jQHsYSEg In addition to this, if a frontline employee gets infected while on the job and dies, the company will bear all the expenses of their children's education till they graduate.  "Tata Steel has taken the path of #AgilityWithCare by extending social security schemes to the family members of the employees affected by #COVID19. While we do our bit, we urge everyone to help others around them in any capacity possible to get through these tough times," the Jamshedpur-based company said on Twitter while announcing the schemes.