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IT layoffs: Will intervene, Karnataka minister assures employees' forum
Karnataka IT minister Priyank Kharge said the State Government could intervene to solve issues between employees' forum and IT companies. "We will help them understand the State laws. I have told them to come together instead of multiple associations approaching me and know the existing laws and then we can call industry players and have a way out. I cannot have lopsided policy. There should be conducive environment for both investment and employment," said Kharge here after the Bengaluru chapter of Forum for IT Employees (FITE). The forum has sought Karnataka IT minister's intervention to "set up an inquiry" on "the effect of layoffs on IT women employees" and said the women employees in different IT services firms are "easy targets" for "forceful resignations". Members of this forum submitted a letter to the minister with five key demand and claimed that companies were using "under-performance" as an excuse for "layoffs". The forum also demanded that the IT services industry's .
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Amid IT layoffs, engineering colleges shift focus to skilling
PSG College of Technology has invited IT firms and external agencies to conduct training
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IT woes: FITE files petition against Wipro for 'forcing' techies to resign
FITE has already approached labour commissions in Chennai, Hyderabad and Pune
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IT job cuts: Infosys founder Narayana Murthy saddened by recent layoffs
Murthy, however, did not elaborate on the matter
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