IT/ ITES Employees Centre

On 30th April 2012, we lost our beloved Rasinesh to a tragic road accident. Rasinesh was one of the founding members of ITEC and has all along been a supporter of all activities that were taken up by ITEC. He was a staunch free software activist and believed free knowledge is a must for a free society. As a passionate technologist, he was a role model for many in the path of self-learning and knowledge sharing.

The Labour Department in Karnataka has decided not to renew exemption for the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act going forth. This means that IT/ITeS companies will now have to adhere to the rules under this labour legislation. It must be remembered that this exemption has been provided for the past 11 years.

ITEC (IT and ITeS Employees Centre), and ITHI, a forum of women employees in IT and ITeS, had been campaigning against exemption from the Act. ITHI also conducted campaigns against the proposal to extend the working-hour deadline for women employees from the existing 8 p.m.

ITEC has launched the February edition of its quarterly Newsletter. It is an attempt to highlight a myriad range of issues from understanding the issues that women face in the IT field to the effect of an outsourcing bill in the US to the invisible censorship of internet in India. We have also attempted to kindle the cultural & social spirit in IT employees through a movie review, an interview with a National Award winning director and a poem on caste walls. Read along & write to us with your suggestions.

Raking up the cultural and creative sides of the IT/ITeS Employees in particular and the public in general remains one of the main objectives of ITEC. We took a big stride in this direction on Dec 17, 3 pm at Mitra Jyoti School at HSR Layout by inaugurating ITEC's Film Club.

Background

Cheating has become prevalent in the name of IT/ITeS companies for the past few years in Bangalore. Many fresh and vulnerable employees who come to Bangalore in the hope of building a career have been victims of this deception. ITEC, a welfare & support organization for IT /ITES Employees, has been at the forefront to fight against such fraudulent practices in the IT Industry.

ITEC is launching a progressive film club from IT folks. ITEC plans to screen progressive and socially relevant movies and documentaries in different parts of Bangalore starting from December 2011. A discussion on the movie and the issues it tries to address would be conducted along with the screening.

The inaugural movie is "Offside", directed by Jafar Panahi, the acclaimed film director who has been put behind the bars and banned from film making in Iran.