“The joint discussion with the chief labour commissioner is again pushed to next week as representatives from Infosys remained physically absent today, again. The meeting is now pushed to next Thursday and we are expected to receive the official communication in writing from the ministry in the next few days on the same,” Harpreet Singh Saluja, the president of Pune-based labour union Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate told ET. The union filed the complaint last month.
Infosys did not respond to queries till the time of going to press. The chief labour commissioner did not offer to comment on the development.
This is the second hearing Infosys representatives have physically skipped after missing the first hearing on April 28. It had sought a fresh date to attend the discussion then and said it did not receive a copy of the grievance.
According to the offer letters of India’s second largest IT company, an employee shall not accept for six months an employment offer from “named competitors” such as
, and , among others, if the new job involves working with a customer with whom the employee has worked in the preceding 12 months during his/her stint at Infosys.
It also says that for six months an employee should not accept employment offers from a customer with whom he/she has directly worked in the preceding 12 months.
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“It is a standard business practice in many parts of the world for employment contracts to include controls of reasonable scope and duration to protect the confidentiality of information, customer connection and other legitimate business interests,” Infosys had told ET last month.
The conditions are fully disclosed to all job aspirants before they decide to join Infosys, and do not prevent employees from joining other organisations, according to the statement.
