On Friday, The Govt. of Haryana exempted pregnant women employees working in state Civil Secretariat from attending office & allowed them to work from home.
According to the order, Joint, Deputy Secretaries, Under Secretaries, Superintendents & Deputy Superintendents, Special Senior Secretaries, Senior Secretaries, Secretaries & Private Secretaries to Ministers & Administrative Secretaries have been directed to ensure those female employees who are pregnant & working under their control should be allowed to work from home.
"This may be treated as most urgent," the order read.
"Haryana Govt has decided that pregnant female employees working in State Civil Secretariat have been exempted from attending the office & are allowed to work from home in the view of COVID-19," CM's Office tweeted.
Recently, the State Govt allowed the employees who are blind & have physical disabilities, to work from home in the wake of ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier, Uttarakhand Govt reportedly exempted pregnant government employees, women with children below 10 years of age & employees above 55 years of age & employees with serious health conditions from attending office regularly & said that they should be called to work only in unavoidable situations amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
On July 5, Maharashtra Women & Child Development Minister Yashomati Thakur wrote to CM Uddav Thackeray requesting him to pass an order to allow female Govt employees with health issues to work from home during the Coronavirus pandemic.
The total no. of cases in Haryana is now at 40,054, including 33,444 recovered or discharged, 6,143 active cases & 467 deaths so far.
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