Tata Steel allows employees to work from home amid coronavirus outbreak

Jamshedpur, March 16: As part of its preventive measures to combat corona virus, Tata Steel on Monday� issued an advisory to its officials to work from home avoiding unnecessary gathering. The rest can avail special leaves as directed in the advisory issued by Tata Steel vice president of human resources, Suresh Dutt Tripathi on Monday.�

The company has asked its unit heads to avoid public transport and those who can work from home can do so as per their choice. All employees with recent visit to overseas, especially to Asian countries like China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Thailand, Singapore, Iran, Malaysia, and France over the last 14 days have been advised to take� 14 days from off the date of their arrival with an intimation to their respective head of the department and general manager (medical services), Tata Steel. Such employees are allowed to avail ‘Work from Home’ as per the policy guidelines.�

The company has also issued a travel advisory on suspension of all international and domestic business travel of employees. The suspension of overseas travel and domestic travel–either by air, train or road–has been enforced till further notice. Visitors have been barred entry to Tata Steel offices and plant.�