Dear friend,
Your post is about retention of woman employee on completion of her maternity leave. Somehow Mr Gopinath Varahamurthi perceived it as being misogynist and he gave his ironical reply. Anyway let us come to the original issue.
Women from all types of companies go on maternity leave. Many times deliveries get complicated and resuming the duties on completion of leave becomes difficult. Therefore, women resign. The second reason is that no proper person is there to care of the newly born baby. Many women are reluctant to keep their baby in creche. Hence they resign, take career break for 2-3 years and resume after the break.
Nevertheless, if you look at women from top-notch MNCs or branded companies, these do not take break. There are two reasons for this. One is the strength of the brand. The brand image of these companies is so strong that it overrides the post-maternity issues. The second one is the remuneration that they get is also very high. Separation from the company gives them big financial loss.
If you are 5-year old private limited company then you fail short two major expectations i.e. strong brand image as well as remuneration. Payment of Rs 5 lakh is not that great.
There is nothing wrong if your company has faced this issue. This is common among SMEs. Therefore, your leadership and all of you need to strive to become a branded company to mitigate the woes employee turnover.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar