AHMEDABAD: An employee of corporate that manufactures wellness and healthcare products lost his job because of a put up he made on social media expressing anger on the incidents of rape at Kathua, Unnao and Surat.
The put up, which many objected to, had a picture a woman’s body along side India’s map and bore the road: ‘Country bleeds in rape culture, As if someone cares’. Soon after he posted this, he used to be trolled for the put up and used to be ultimately sacked by his employer.
Riyaz Pathan, a regional supervisor in Ahmedabad with Himalaya Wellness, on April 21 posted the content described above with textual content talking towards rape. The textual content read, “When a minor is raped and any person comes in beef up of the rapist, then it's not only rape on the girl but also on all of the nation.”
On April 27, Pathan received his termination letter, which reads: “On April 21, 2018, at around 9.00am you put up a poster with the identify of the corporate “Himalaya” and a photograph with feedback made under as beneath on Facebook… This used to be put up to your Facebook account which spread like wildfire on social media. Such used to be the repercussion of your put up that there were innumerable unsightly and objectionable feedback posted towards the corporate, based on the put up you had put on Facebook.”
The letter said Pathan removed the put up after corporate officials intervened, but the damage to the corporate used to be finished.
When contacted Pathan, he said, “Like me, many other people had additionally posted that picture with the similar tagline, but I used to be targeted by trolls, lots of whom started attacking my employer.”
Pathan said he's mulling criminal action, as he used to be fired without a proper listening to. “I additionally posted an apology letter on Facebook, but it will not save my job.”
“We were made acutely aware of the put up by a flood of calls and emails to our customer support division, questioning our endorsement of his views. We are well acutely aware of the rights of a citizen in a democratic nation with admire to freedom of expression,” a Himalaya spokesperson said, responding to an e-mail from TOI.
“In this actual case, the principle display picture of the worker depicts him receiving a certificates from the industry head with the logo of Himalaya on transparent display. Right beneath this, and merged into the principle image is the cartoon depicting our nation bleeding in rape culture. On his web page he obviously mentions his designation and hyperlink to our group. The overall affect to anyone viewing his web page used to be that those views were being recommended by us as an organization,” added the answer.
“Under freedom of expression one won't reason damage to the corporate reputation and the several thousand workers dependent,” the company communications division of the corporate said.
The put up, which many objected to, had a picture a woman’s body along side India’s map and bore the road: ‘Country bleeds in rape culture, As if someone cares’. Soon after he posted this, he used to be trolled for the put up and used to be ultimately sacked by his employer.
Riyaz Pathan, a regional supervisor in Ahmedabad with Himalaya Wellness, on April 21 posted the content described above with textual content talking towards rape. The textual content read, “When a minor is raped and any person comes in beef up of the rapist, then it's not only rape on the girl but also on all of the nation.”
On April 27, Pathan received his termination letter, which reads: “On April 21, 2018, at around 9.00am you put up a poster with the identify of the corporate “Himalaya” and a photograph with feedback made under as beneath on Facebook… This used to be put up to your Facebook account which spread like wildfire on social media. Such used to be the repercussion of your put up that there were innumerable unsightly and objectionable feedback posted towards the corporate, based on the put up you had put on Facebook.”
The letter said Pathan removed the put up after corporate officials intervened, but the damage to the corporate used to be finished.
When contacted Pathan, he said, “Like me, many other people had additionally posted that picture with the similar tagline, but I used to be targeted by trolls, lots of whom started attacking my employer.”
Pathan said he's mulling criminal action, as he used to be fired without a proper listening to. “I additionally posted an apology letter on Facebook, but it will not save my job.”
“We were made acutely aware of the put up by a flood of calls and emails to our customer support division, questioning our endorsement of his views. We are well acutely aware of the rights of a citizen in a democratic nation with admire to freedom of expression,” a Himalaya spokesperson said, responding to an e-mail from TOI.
“In this actual case, the principle display picture of the worker depicts him receiving a certificates from the industry head with the logo of Himalaya on transparent display. Right beneath this, and merged into the principle image is the cartoon depicting our nation bleeding in rape culture. On his web page he obviously mentions his designation and hyperlink to our group. The overall affect to anyone viewing his web page used to be that those views were being recommended by us as an organization,” added the answer.
“Under freedom of expression one won't reason damage to the corporate reputation and the several thousand workers dependent,” the company communications division of the corporate said.
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