L&T ramps up efforts to retain workforce post Covid 2.0

Engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has intensified its efforts to retain its workforce post the outbreak of the second COVID-19 wave, a top company official told news agency PTI.

“What has happened after the first wave (of COVID-19) is that much of the labourers went back to their villages and towns. With huge efforts, I can talk about Larsen & Toubro, we brought many of them back,” company’s CEO and managing director S N Subrahmanyan told PTI.

The company said it has been able to retain almost 70% of its 2,45,000 contract labourers at its various project sites on account of medical care facilities and other support measures during the pandemic.