VI Central Pay Commission has recommended two years ‘Child Care Leave’ for women employees and the same has been implemented by the Central Government with certain conditions. But despite strong demand from the BSNL Employees Union, the BSNL management has so far denied implementation of the same in BSNL. This is completely an anti-women stand of the management. On the one hand the management says that there are surplus staff and is again and again proposing VRS, but when it comes to grant of Child Care Leave, it says that it can not be given due to shortage of staff. Interesting!

The management should stop this anti-worker, anti-women stand. The International Womens Day falls on 8th March 2011. It is an opportunity for the BSNL management to correct its stand and extend this right to the thousands of young women in the BSNL.