Comments on: Reflections IT Unrest and Closures in 2014 ER Part 3 https://vivekvsp.com/2015/01/reflections-it-unrest-and-closures-in-2014-er-part-3/ The Events in Human Resources and Employee Relations space, and in My World through my eyes. Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:26:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Vivek Patwardhan https://vivekvsp.com/2015/01/reflections-it-unrest-and-closures-in-2014-er-part-3/#comment-3519 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:20:04 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/2015/01/reflections-it-unrest-and-closures-in-2014-er-part-3/#comment-3519 This video was sent to me by a friend. It is available on YouTube. With gadgets in hand, nothing can be hidden! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCF02usTUKI

]]> By: Vivek Patwardhan https://vivekvsp.com/2015/01/reflections-it-unrest-and-closures-in-2014-er-part-3/#comment-3520 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:16:46 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/2015/01/reflections-it-unrest-and-closures-in-2014-er-part-3/#comment-3520 I agree.

]]> By: Vivek Patwardhan https://vivekvsp.com/2015/01/reflections-it-unrest-and-closures-in-2014-er-part-3/#comment-3521 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 13:15:14 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/2015/01/reflections-it-unrest-and-closures-in-2014-er-part-3/#comment-3521 Sonali Sarma says:
Dear Sir,

My thoughts….(actually more of questions..some rhetoric some otherwise)

1. Wasn't it evident, when India became the call centre hub of the world that IT employees would need unions at some point or the other. Why ? Because this shift happened purely for economic reasons..we had cheaper employees who spoke English & that attracted the world to us. The minute something is cheaper or scarce…the race for that resource starts…and eventually human greed …leads to exploitation of that resource…wasn't this to happen in IT too.TCS has been almost like the Indian railways employing so many people…retrenching should have caused more of a furore than it has.What is more surprising is that we will as HR, as unions as government continue to be unprepared yet again.

2. Like you said…we cannot have the same labour laws that have been more inclined towards manufacturing employees for ITES employees…agreed..but somewhere I get the feeling….(I maybe wrong) in its enthusiasm to make things easier and transparent for the employers and the investors…this government is making it more difficult for the workmen, employees.We need a strong united front of employees which encourages industry and enterprise and yet protects fairness, right to work etc…dont know will that happen, if such a utopian order is possible.. in such a divisive society as ours.

Will your next article throw some light on what should be the progressive laws for ITES sectors…

3. How can we as HR join hands with national unions to create a "progressive mindset", positive lobbying or does this get done only by the CII and FICCI type bodies.

Regards
Sonali

]]> By: Joseph George https://vivekvsp.com/2015/01/reflections-it-unrest-and-closures-in-2014-er-part-3/#comment-3522 Mon, 12 Jan 2015 05:30:58 +0000 https://vivekvsp.com/2015/01/reflections-it-unrest-and-closures-in-2014-er-part-3/#comment-3522 Vivek Sir, I was watching the movie Jobs yesterday. My son told me that the actor who played Steve also tried Steve's diet and had pancreatic issues just keeping with a fruit diet. I will not be surprised that like students like to use their highlighter on text-books to get an illusion of mastery; leaders in corporate IT services firms tend to take the 'accusatory' and 'fire' route as did Steve. John Sculley once a soda salesman tried his had with Steve. In India, the social stigma of job loss is greater in a society that is also economically insecure. An action is to be viewed in context. Leadership in India's IT sector has been long on test, and their poverty of innovative ideas for managing intangible assets in safe and conservative services strategies will haunt it soon. To imagine that leaders are rewarded for their courage to fire people is to know that the ship is in stormy waters.

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