Currently, IT companies are not covered by the Industrial Employment Act. This disallows IT employees from forming any labour union or association and put them in the same category as casual workers, who could be laid off without any reason.
What go unnoticed are occasional blips - the layoffs - that are not statistically not as significant, but are imbued with sad stories of people.
Compenies claim it as nothing extraordinary and it’s only part of “workforce optimisation”
The seniors, who cannot be inducted into leadership or project management roles - probably due to lack of vacancies and competencies - add no better value than a new entrant. This “workforce optimisation” is seemingly about “cost optimisation”.
If the employees keep doing it without constantly upgrading their skills, they become no better than the new wave of recruits that enter the companies every year. After a while, the earlier ones make no sense cost-wise because the same job can be done by cheaper hands. The company, then talks of poor performance.
Employees are made to work at an average 14-16 hours a day..EOD concept means that end of day deadline is always the next day morning when others come to office
Karnatakagovernment's recent decision to exempt the information technology sector from an onerous labour law - theIndustrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 - for another five years.
Industry representatives in India's technology capital had welcomed the decision to extend the exemption from the Industrial Employment Act. According to them, the Act was archaic and not relevant to a modern, services industry such as theirs.
In the absence of exemption, IT firms would have had to define wages, number of contract employees, average work hours and other conditions of employment and display it prominently near the main entrance. For over a decade, software companies in Bangalore enjoyed exemption from the law,
Now Indian IT industry has lost Pyramid structure, now it has got Cylinder structure
“The company currently has about 90,000 staff with more than eight years of experience. The plan is to bring it down to 30,000 and hire more juniors,” he said.
FITE is an organisation that tries to work against what it calls illegal re-trenchment of employees
Vinod, a co-ordinator of Chennai-based Forum for IT Employees (FITE)
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-11-07/news/43776157_1_manufacturing-sector-labour-law-outsourcing-sector
http://www.firstpost.com/business/alleged-lay-offs-tcs-time-unionise-sector-2027195.html
What go unnoticed are occasional blips - the layoffs - that are not statistically not as significant, but are imbued with sad stories of people.
Compenies claim it as nothing extraordinary and it’s only part of “workforce optimisation”
The seniors, who cannot be inducted into leadership or project management roles - probably due to lack of vacancies and competencies - add no better value than a new entrant. This “workforce optimisation” is seemingly about “cost optimisation”.
If the employees keep doing it without constantly upgrading their skills, they become no better than the new wave of recruits that enter the companies every year. After a while, the earlier ones make no sense cost-wise because the same job can be done by cheaper hands. The company, then talks of poor performance.
Employees are made to work at an average 14-16 hours a day..EOD concept means that end of day deadline is always the next day morning when others come to office
Karnatakagovernment's recent decision to exempt the information technology sector from an onerous labour law - theIndustrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 - for another five years.
Industry representatives in India's technology capital had welcomed the decision to extend the exemption from the Industrial Employment Act. According to them, the Act was archaic and not relevant to a modern, services industry such as theirs.
In the absence of exemption, IT firms would have had to define wages, number of contract employees, average work hours and other conditions of employment and display it prominently near the main entrance. For over a decade, software companies in Bangalore enjoyed exemption from the law,
Now Indian IT industry has lost Pyramid structure, now it has got Cylinder structure
“The company currently has about 90,000 staff with more than eight years of experience. The plan is to bring it down to 30,000 and hire more juniors,” he said.
FITE is an organisation that tries to work against what it calls illegal re-trenchment of employees
Vinod, a co-ordinator of Chennai-based Forum for IT Employees (FITE)
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-11-07/news/43776157_1_manufacturing-sector-labour-law-outsourcing-sector
http://www.firstpost.com/business/alleged-lay-offs-tcs-time-unionise-sector-2027195.html
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