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SIS Limited | Sustainability Report 2020-21

Safeguarding our people during COVID-19

Protecting our people

India operations
Our employees’ health and safety will
always be our topmost priority.
In anticipation of adversities of the
pandemic, we initiated actions on March
5, 2020. We undertook immediate actions
by conducting sensitisation sessions for
over 2.4 lakh employees on the COVID
safety protocols.
A Strategic management group
comprising SBU heads and HR was
created to strategise and implement
business continuity plans to keep
our people safe while extending
uninterrupted services to our employees.
We equipped our employees with PPE
kits and sanitisers, restricting employees
with medical comorbid conditions from
coming to offices. We also ensured
advance salary payment for each of our
billing employees/front line workers to
take care of their household utilities.
If an employee was to test positive for the
virus, we deployed the HR and a business

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