Hi All,
One incident happened in our office where an employee with poor financial conditions was facing the critical situation. His father was admitted in the hospital ICU. He urgently required the financial help for the further treatment. One of the employee sent an email to entire group to inform the need of funds for needy employee. Needy employee really needed funds as it was verified. There was no initiative took by the HR in this regards.
But for the sake of Humanity, 2 employees took the initiative and collected funds in the form of donation from the office staff (went desk to desk). According to the salary scales of the employees the minimum amount of donation was set like for associate level employees Rs 200, Team leads Rs.500 and the managers Rs.1000. We collected total 30K funds and sent to needy employee.
On this the HR disagreed stating that the step taken was not correct as per HR norms because it will set an expectation level among the rest employees if they/their family get sick in future. HR said that is why I was silent on this issue.
Please tell us that being a HR:
1. Did we do wrong?
2. What should have our HR done after reading donation requirement email?
3. Is this right that in future employees will set expectation and is that right that we should not have helped needy employee?
4. Shall we stay quite and simply pay our donation whatever we were feeling like even the donation amount would be 1 to 2 thousands only?
Please do let us know. I am not from HR field and feeling sad even after doing good act, I am being criticized. Let me know if it is really wrong, I will be ok with that as well.
One incident happened in our office where an employee with poor financial conditions was facing the critical situation. His father was admitted in the hospital ICU. He urgently required the financial help for the further treatment. One of the employee sent an email to entire group to inform the need of funds for needy employee. Needy employee really needed funds as it was verified. There was no initiative took by the HR in this regards.
But for the sake of Humanity, 2 employees took the initiative and collected funds in the form of donation from the office staff (went desk to desk). According to the salary scales of the employees the minimum amount of donation was set like for associate level employees Rs 200, Team leads Rs.500 and the managers Rs.1000. We collected total 30K funds and sent to needy employee.
On this the HR disagreed stating that the step taken was not correct as per HR norms because it will set an expectation level among the rest employees if they/their family get sick in future. HR said that is why I was silent on this issue.
Please tell us that being a HR:
1. Did we do wrong?
2. What should have our HR done after reading donation requirement email?
3. Is this right that in future employees will set expectation and is that right that we should not have helped needy employee?
4. Shall we stay quite and simply pay our donation whatever we were feeling like even the donation amount would be 1 to 2 thousands only?
Please do let us know. I am not from HR field and feeling sad even after doing good act, I am being criticized. Let me know if it is really wrong, I will be ok with that as well.