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Government should decided that whether IT companies can have a trade union: Madras High Court
Posted on: 24/Feb/2015 2:25:04 PM
A new forum -Puthiya Jananayaga Thozhilalar Munnani (New Democratic Labourers Front) - had moved the court seeking a direction to the government to implement labour welfare laws in the information technology (IT) sector. The petition has been filed in the aftermath of reports that Tata Consultancy Services had decided to retrench a couple of thousands of its engineers. The forum alleged that software companies in general do not follow labour law norms, and that they exploited their employees who lacked the benefit of collective bargaining in the absence of trade unions to fight for their rights.
The First Bench comprising Chief Justice S.K.Kaul and Justice M.M.Sundresh said the prime question to be decided by the competent authority was whether the IT industry would be covered under the ID Act. This could be done only if the parties concerned approached the authority. Hence, it would not be appropriate for the court to entertain a PIL which was purely a dispute between employees and employer relating to TCS. It was for the authorities concerned to act on the petitioner’s representation.
Treating the petition as closed the Bench left it to the authorities concerned to take action on the representation as per law.
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