Briefly, India’s IT trade unions try to play a role against a backdrop of redundancies hitting the sector

The bodies that aim to organize India’s engineers are looking to succeed at a time when a significant wave of redundancies is hitting the country’s IT sector (for more on the underlying reasons for the layoffs, which stem from the new US migration policy c.f. article No. 10237). These bodies have secure a meeting with the Minister in charge of IT Priyank Kharge who has indicated a willingness to discuss with all stakeholders ways of bolstering IT workers’ rights within the current economic climate. Today’s Karnataka legislation actually exempts IT sector companies from abiding by industrial relations rules as well as the right to strike.