Case Filed Against Three Major IT Companies to Stop “White Collar Slavery”

We have all had experiences of stressful work hours, overtime and dominating bosses. Despite various laws in place, the corporate sector has always neglected them and made their employees go through hellfire. But the employees have had enough. They have decided to put up a case protesting about these malpractices.

Vijay Gopal, the president of Forum Against Corruption has said that the PIL (Public Interest Litigation) is filed against the IT giants of these three companies, namely Accenture, Cognizant and Caspex Corp to improve the working conditions of the IT employees. He further added that this move is basically taken to stop the exploitation done to employees.

Instances known say that the employees have worked for more than 10 hours a day without any extra pay and no correct allocation of leaving time. All this is technically not feasible for corporate employees.

All these lead the employees to file a lawsuit against the companies.

Along with the activist group Forum Against Corruption, three IT employees from Hyderabad filed the case under Public Interest Litigation (PIL) at the Telangana High Court.

There have been several leading companies whose names have popped up. It is said by the techies that “white collared slavery prevailing in the name of employment should end.” The court after accepting the case has given a notice to the Telangana State Government giving a time duration of 4 weeks within which these companies have to respond to the PIL issued against them.