{"id":28040,"date":"2020-03-19T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T07:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=28040"},"modified":"2020-03-19T11:14:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T07:14:44","slug":"aesg-announces-new-maternity-policy-in-uae-to-support-work-life-balance-of-female-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/aesg-announces-new-maternity-policy-in-uae-to-support-work-life-balance-of-female-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"AESG Announces New Maternity Policy In UAE To Support Work-Life Balance Of Female Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

To coincide with the occasion of Mother\u2019s Day, taking place on the 21st<\/sup> of March, AESG today announced the implementation of its new maternity policy aimed at fostering more equitable and gender-neutral career growth opportunities across its organisation. The policy generously extends on the UAE\u2019s labour laws by offering 90-days paid leave, with an additional 90-days of optional unpaid leave, to its female staff in the UAE.<\/p>\n

According to AESG, the policy is in line with its commitment to being an equal-opportunity employer which has organically resulted in its industry-leading gender ratio with women representing 46% of office staff and 42% of senior leadership positions. While the announcement will stand to make employment at AESG a more attractive proposition for aspiring female professionals in the construction industry, the company has cited its desire to empower its female employees to \u2018thrive in both work and family life\u2019 as the foremost reason for this decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all too common for women to have to place their careers on hold following their decision to have children. This is a contributing factor to why we see gender disparity, especially in senior management and leadership positions, in our sector,\u201d explained Phillipa Grant, Director of Energy and Sustainable Development at AESG. \u201cWe are proud of the fact that women at AESG \u2013 by virtue of their merit and our company\u2019s fairness policies \u2013 are already well represented in senior positions. With the implementation of these new provisions, we hope to ease the transition into motherhood while giving our female employees the confidence that the hard-work and progress they have made in their careers will be safeguarded.\u201d<\/p>\n

While making this announcement, AESG reiterated that it follows world-class project management workflows that incorporate industry best-practices which ensure that the quality of its services and progress of projects will remain unimpacted by the new policy. \u201cWe have always implemented a \u2018soft-handover\u2019 process with a sufficiently long duration. This has served to ensure that newly assigned team members have an in-depth understanding of the project and their responsibilities much before the actual transition takes place,\u201d said Grant.<\/p>\n

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To coincide with the occasion of Mother\u2019s Day, taking place on the 21st of March, AESG today announced the implementation of its new maternity policy aimed at fostering more equitable and gender-neutral career growth opportunities across its organisation. The policy generously extends on the UAE\u2019s labour laws by offering 90-days paid leave, with an additional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28043,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040\/revisions\/28043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}