Infosys layoffs: NITES approaches education ministry for apprenticeship law violation
Infosys for the mass termination of trainees, seeking immediate intervention of two central ministries, the Education and the Skill Development & Entrepreneurship ministry.
“NITES…seeks your urgent intervention in a grave matter concerning Infosys Ltd’s blatant violation of The Apprentices Act, 1961, and The Apprenticeship Rules, 1992,” advocate Harpreet Singh Saluja, president of NITES, told union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, in a letter reviewed by ET.
This comes days after the Karnataka labour department found no violations of labour laws by the Bengaluru-headquartered IT company in the layoffs of over 300 trainees. Infosys terminated these workers claiming that they had failed to clear three rounds of an internal assessment programme.
NITES pegs the number of layoffs to be at 700, while Infosys and the labour department maintain that the figure is under 350.
Asking for “urgent inquiry into the illegal terminations and immediate reinstatement of all terminated apprentices along with payment of pending stipends”, NITES termed that Infosys has “grossly violated” the two acts’ statutory provisions. These include compensation for termination of apprenticeship, procedure for termination of apprenticeship and probation period and early termination process.
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