Shashi Tharoor's 40-Hour Work Week Pitch After EY Employee's Death
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Anna Sebastian Perayil, a chartered accountant (CA) from Kerala who worked at EY's Pune office, allegedly died due to work pressure.
Amid an uproar over the death of a 26-year-old employee at tax consultancy major Ernst&Young (EY) allegedly due to work pressure, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday suggested a 40-hour work week. Anna Sebastian Perayil, a chartered accountant (CA) from Kerala who worked at EY's Pune office for four months, died this July. Her mother, Anita Augustine, wrote to EY India Chairman Rajiv Memani this month, flagging the "glorification" of overwork at the multinational consulting firm. Had a deeply emotional and heartrending conversation with Shri Sibi Joseph, the father of young Anna Sebastian, who passed away after a cardiac arrest, following four months of deeply stressful seven-day weeks of 14 hours a day at Ernst&Young. He suggested, and I agreed, that I…
Taking to his official X account, Mr Tharoor, who is a Member of Parliament from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram, said Anna passed away after a cardiac arrest, following "four months of deeply stressful seven-day weeks of 14 hours a day" at the Big Four accounting firm.
He said he had a "deeply emotional and heartrending" conversation with her father, Sibi Joseph.
