PerkyCoconut
PerkyCoconut

RG Kar & EY, Why there is a differential treatment of these cases

In the last 30 days, two Indian women lost their lives due to the failure of systems at their work place. An ideal work place should ensure safety and support for all of its employees. Due to the lack of safety and support,we have lost a doctor and a CA. As a society,it is our job to ensure that the government works on these systems and ensure that things don’t repeat. To make governments work people should question. As a society we have questioned the RG Kar case properly. But what about the EY case? I agree with the fact that sexual violence is an extreme crime which cannot be compared with a death due to bad work environment. But a death is a death and people should be held accountable for this crime too. We haven’t seen enough outrage in the EY case, as much as what we saw in RG Kar’s case. Anna is really a hero, who survived the torture. The problem with India is, we don’t even acknowledge this. Doctors as a community stood up when the RG Kar case happened. Leave CAs or the entire corporate employee cohort, her own colleagues didn’t bother to pay a visit to Anna’s funeral. In the case of RG Kar, the head of the institute was questioned and tried. Here the guy from EY, just shrugged it off his shoulders, saying random nonsense. Sometimes I feel that Indian systems have exceptions for foreign firms. I have seen people blaming Anna for not being able to cope up with work stress, instead of questioning systems in action. These people are very similar to those people who say that, the r@p& victim should have learnt martial arts. When the opponent is big and strong, neither martial arts, nor stress management techniques work.Always remember,today it’s her. Tomorrow it can be you or your loved ones. Isn’t it our responsibility to fight for better working conditions? Isn’t it our duty to at least spread awareness about a bad work place,instead of blaming Anna for not being fit enough to survive?

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ZippyBoba
ZippyBoba
Student3mo

Completely agree with everything you say. EY needs to be held accountable. It may not be right to make Rajiv Memani a scapegoat in all this. But he definitely has the power to make a change at least now. EY as an organisation needs to respond with better employee well being policies. And the government needs to bring in better regulations on well being. There are some offices that discreetly work 7 days a week and even on some public holidays. Nothing ever happens to any of them.

ZippyBoba
ZippyBoba
Student3mo

Oh also in this context, India is the heart disease capital. Shitty wokplace policies and bad workplace culture are also a huge contributor to this. Celebrating yoga day is all fine. How many employees even get the time or mindspace for that after a 15-16 hr work day?

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