Deads of Infosys: The Karnataka Labor Department finds no violation of the law

Infosys has not violated any labor law in accordance with a provisional report from the Karnataka Labor Department presented to the state government, reviewing the company’s latest terminations. The department is expected to present its final report in approximately one week together with a copy to the Ministry of Labor of the Union. “We have not found any violation of labor laws in our inspection in Infosys … There was no relationship of employees and employers between them first. They were not even granted appointment letters to be called employees. They were apprentices for three months who received stipends and were part of the learning program,” confirmed a government official.

“The Government cannot intervene in the selection process of any company … We have collected all the information in detail of Infosys and a provisional report has been submitted. We will send the final report before March 4 or 5,” the official added.

A team led by the additional work commissioner (industrial relations) G Manjunath, by order of the Minister of Labor, Santhosh Lad, visited the two Infosys campus in Mysuru and Bangalore, and the documents related to the ‘hiring’ and information of Infosys were examined.

According to government inspection, a total of 329 students could not approve the test, but more than 600 of 2022 lot students have advanced. The government official added that the terminology used by Infosys was not correct.

“These are not really endings, since they were only apprentices for a few months. To become employees on probation, they had to eliminate the evidence, ”said the official.

Around February 7Nryana Murthy founded to Infosys asked hundreds of the apprentices who had hired campus out of two and a half years ago, but in October last October, describing that they failed to clarify an internal evaluation. Infosys officials.

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While Harpreet Singh Saluja, lawyer and president of Employees of Incipient Information Technology, Senate (NITES), an association for the well -being of IT/ITE employees, cites layoffs to be around 700, Infosys claims that the number must be less than 350.

On February 25, the prime minister’s office has He received more than one hundred complaints from dismissed employees of Infosys who ask for their restoration in employment and to avoid similar “unfair dismissals” in the future.

In this sense, the Office of the Central Labor has sent a second notice to the Karnataka State Work Commissioner requesting intervention.

Infosys denied the nites and accusations of the apprentices for the process of unfair evaluation.

In a statement, the company said: “While we understand the disappointment of people who have not been able to eliminate evaluation, it is important to understand the facts surrounding this situation.”

Our proof processes are articulated in the evaluation policy document and also communicate proactively to all apprentices, the statement added.

“In several IT companies, they have hired several people in contract and always have the termination clauses written in the employment contract. The termination of a employment contract is fair unless it is for arbitrary reasons such as gender or caste bias, ”said lawyer Abhishek Rastogi, founder of the law firm Rastogi Chambers, which handles several labor disputes of this type.

According to him, a work contract has a termination clause and if the company follows all clauses in the contract between employees and the employer, the termination is legally possible and is only violated if any arbitrariness and discrimination come into play.

Yugal Joshi, a partner of the research firm Everest Group, said: “Infosys let the newer employees go due to their alleged low performance is not new to the IT industry. It seems that it is being indicated due to the form of execution and the problem of obtaining snowbolls on social networks channels. It is difficult to believe that a great firm as that will be conspired against the set of candidates.