Netflix Faced Opposition After Excluding Many Workers From Perks Policy

Netflix's parental policy is opposed as it excludes many workers from its DVD-by-mail business.

The American internet media services provider, Netflix, is pressurized to amend its parent-friendly policy. Netflix news exclaimed that protests are carried out against the Californian organization’s policy to exclude workers in its DVD-by-mail service from a recently launched privilege that gives up to 12 months of paid leave to a majority of its workers after the adoption or birth of an offspring.

At least three online petitions, published by groups of activists, are urging the company to extend the parental policy to more than 2000 workers in the online video service that contribute to most of its revenue.

Netflix news today disclosed that approximately 450 temporary, part-time, and full-time workers are serving the North American media giant in its slowly shrinking, but lucrative DVD division. The protestors believe that the company is unjustly favoring its highly paid computer programmers and other technology professionals who are working in its video sector over the lower paid workers who are known for sorting envelopes and discs in the distribution centers that acquire and supply digital video discs.

Netflix breaking news affirmed that majority of the DVD employees are hourly paid and make a proportion of the six digit salaries that are paid to a significant number of Internet video service workers. The enterprise pays $15 per hour for customer service representatives and more than $200,000 yearly to software engineers. The co-founder of a women’s right group ‘Ultra Violet’, Nita Chaudhry, believes that the company’s policy to leave workers, who could prove to be beneficiaries of the generous paid leave policy, is offensive.

A number of other organizations have also opposed the enterprise’s initiative. These include Coworker.org, which struggles for workers’ rights and a political organization, known as ‘Democracy for America’.  

Democracy for American has requested its members to confront Netflix against its discriminatory action against workers serving in its DVD sector. An official of the political group, Mia Moore, believes that an employee’s capability to take care of his or her family should not depend on the department in which they are working.

The Western organization had initially announced that the policy would be implemented to serve all of its full-time workers, but after a short span of time, it informed that DVD employees would not be eligible. The organization’s discriminatory practice would not only demoralize its workforce but also damage its reputation.

Netflix’s officials should now take steps to allow all its workers to benefit from the guardian-related policy; otherwise, it might be unable to address their concerns.