Allow surplus staff layoffs, flexible shifts: IT to states

NEW DELHI: The Indian IT industry has asked state governments to extend labour laws relaxations to the services industry, arguing that it would help the $191 billion sector, chiefly reliant on global customers, to cope with the “severe economic downturn” caused by the Covid-19 virus outbreak.

Industry lobby group National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) has sought furloughs and temporary layoff of surplus employees, relaxing daily and weekly work-hour limits, allowing women to work at night from home and a self-declaration regime to comply with government rules.