‘Gender minorities, marginalised groups to comprise 25% of Tata Steel workforce’
Tata Steel aims at having a minimum of 25 per cent of its workforce made up of diverse groups, including gender minorities, marginalised communities, persons with disabilities and LGBTQIA+ individuals, within the next few years, a company official said.
It is one of the first companies in the country to roll out a special recruitment drive for transgender talent, having recruited over 100 members from the community for various roles across different locations, the official claimed.
“Continuing this drive, we aim to have 25 per cent of our workforce from diverse groups in the next couple of years,” the official said.
A total of 113 transgender individuals have been on-boarded and posted at various locations, including manufacturing, operations and maintenance, mining, and services. These employees are stationed in Noamundi, West Bokaro, Kolkata, Kharagpur, Kalinganagar, and Jamshedpur.
Some of these employees work all three shifts and operate Heavy Earth Moving Machinery (HEMM) at the Noamundi iron ore mine in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum and West Bokaro coal mine in Ramgarh district.
“Tata Steel appreciates the potential of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) and has a tremendous organisational focus on it,” the official said.
“In line with this, we renewed our commitment and refocused our approach to DE&I in 2015 by setting up MOSAIC – a platform for pioneering initiatives, diversity targets, and employeefriendly policies conceptualised and executed from the apex level,” he added.