While many businesses drape their logos in rainbows every June to show support for the LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month, Total Access Communication PLC, aka DTAC, put its money where its mouth is on Tuesday.
DTAC, Thailand’s third largest mobile operator, has just introduced a new set of LGBTQ+-friendly policies, including parental leave, matrimony leave and medical leave for gender reassignment surgery.
“We have zero tolerance for discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, religion. This has long been part of our code of conduct,” said Nardrerdee Ar-harnwongse, CEO of DTAC.
The new inclusive benefits amount to matrimony leave of up to six days and an allowance of THB5,000 (US$156); medical leave for gender reassignment surgery up to 30 days per year; parental leave of up to seven days for an LGBTQ+ employee who adopts a child…
