Does Corporate head against religious profiling of staff ?
The database will be used to find
out whether a company has a desirable social diversity.
The UPA government's proposal
requiring public and private sector companies to maintain religious profile of
their employees has not gone down well with several corporate leaders, though some
say they can live with it.
Companies will have to build a
database of their employees, including their religion, to enable the government
implement minority welfare programmes under the oversight of the Equal
Opportunity Commission (EOC).
"It's the next major step that
we will take in bringing minority and majority together in (our) concern for
equality," he said.
Reacting to the proposal, Future
Group Chief Executive Officer Kishore Biyani said the move would add to the
problems in the society. "Our society is complicated and this will make it
more complicated," he added.
PHD Chamber President Satish
Bagrodia said, "I do not think that corporates will be happy doing
religious profiling of employees as these are very personal issues."
"It will be good... And
employees will also be benefited from this. It is a matter of equality,"
he said. Echoing him, Assocham Secretary General D S Rawat said with the enactment
of the law, over a period of time companies can correct the social and
religious diversity.
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