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Birthday leave, anyone? StanChart asks its staff
Everybody loves a birthday treat and the one being offered to Standard Chartered Bank employees was the talk of the town yesterday.
The bank has been canvassing staff about giving them an extra day off on their birthdays starting next year.
That's a bit like asking Vitasoy, Watsons Water and Nestle transport workers if they wanted a pay rise.
The answer is obvious, but it did beg the question of how many more companies are prepared to give their staff a birthday present? Some even suggested the government should make it mandatory.
Standard Chartered is not the first bank to come up with the idea.
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