Commemorating Comrade Saravana Guru
On behalf of NDLF IT employees wing we are organizing a commemoration event this Saturday (06/07/2019) to recall our moments with our Comrade Saravana Guru.
We request all Union Members, Friends and fellow IT employees to join us.
Date : 06/07/2019 (Saturday)
Time : Afternoon – 2.00 – 5.00 P.M.
Venue : Panuval Hall, Thiruvanmiyur, (near Bus depot) Chennai.
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In addition to Quora, he has taken various videos to promote this awareness among IT employees. He is also worked on conducting live question and answer sessions in the FB page to increase this awareness. He played a very vital role in spreading awareness among IT employees.
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Water crisis in Chennai is at peak now. We have massive flood in Chennai several years before and within 5 years of this historical 100 year record flood, Chennai is on news with water crisis as main issues.
Last week there are lot of news circulating that IT companies are having deep water crisis and they did not able to run their offices. As a result, many IT companies are asking their employees to work from home. Many of the IT employees are now working from their home. This is hot news in many leading newspapers and we also got calls from various news magazines like Puthiya Thalaimurai and News 7 channel. We will explore answer for this issue with much closer look.
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we need to explore how to overcome this issue. The answer lies with employees working on other sectors. Last year, we have seen Yamaha worker protest in Chennai Oragadam where majority of the workers went on strike against the management. These sectors has more union powers and this secure their job and provide possibilty of going on strike.
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A series of incidents which happened in a leading IT product companies triggered us to write this article. In fact, many IT companies are following this strategy as best practice to motivate employees in workplace but the reality is different.
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Election is near and the political parties are wooing voters with all kinds of promises. Election manifestos of all the parties have covered almost all popular demands. Like the way they did in the past, now also the rights and demands of working women are left unaddressed. Though we are equal in number of votes, we face this inequality.
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A senior employee who worked for about two decades in CTS talks about how he was terminated under false compliance issues manufactured by the management with the aim of terminating employees like him.
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A refute to the article published by The Hindu – BusinessLine titled “It’s best to leave the IT sector alone” supporting the corporate and demonizing IT Unions.
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The standing orders given by the government does not provide power to terminate employees under the reasons that the employee is a supervisor or citing performance issues through appraisal. In Karnataka, the IT Sector got an exemption from this standing order. This exemption was obtained in the year 2014 and was valid till 2019 and recently the Karnataka Government has extended this exemption for another five years till 2024. This is the main difference we see between two different verdicts on this issue.
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Imagine a situation where this proposal is finalized and in such scenario, it requires 20000 employees to form a union. This proposal will bury all possibilities of forming union in IT sector. This is not only applicable for IT sector but for all other giant corporates. The intention of this change, which is very clear, is to stop registering labour unions in any of the new companies.
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The central government is converting labour laws into codes. Violation of a code will not be punishable as in the case of law. If violation does not attract punishment, imagine how corporates will behave. With their corporate power, they are violating law itself. If we talk about code, they will bury the rights of employees once for all
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There is a famous comedy in a Tamil Movie, by actor Vivek, involving a scoundrel named Minor Kunju who raped a girl in a village. Despite the affected girl’s complaint in the village panchayat, the panchayat would let the accused off and order the scoundrel to pay certain amount of money to village temple as …
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Thus Mr. Raj Mehta has presided over the illegal retrenchment of 100s of Cognizant employees in the past 6 months.
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Join NDLF or any Union or start a new union to safeguard against Illegal Layoffs and Corporate politics. Employees in manufacturing companies, Banks and Insurance companies are doing this.
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Soon Top management hefty salaries and their roles wont be needed anymore since value addition is less. On scams, whose silence is dangerous ? Silence of the Lambs Or Silence of CEO Tigers?
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