Karnataka labour dept says Infosys layoffs not violating laws, trainees not employees: Report

The Karnataka labour department has told the state government in a report that IT giant Infosys has not violated any labour laws when it came to the termination of employees in its Mysuru campus. The final report will come by March 4 or 5, of which a copy will be sent to the Union labour department as well, according to an Economic Times report. This comes after a labour department team led by additional labour commissioner G Manjunath, on orders of labour minister Santhosh Lad, reviewed the terminations by visiting both the Mysuru and Bengaluru campuses of Infosys. 'No labour law violations' However, they found no labour law violations since there was no employee and employer relationship between them in the first place as they weren't even given appointment letters, according to the report which cited an unnamed government official.