For decades, one name has been at the center of the debate over modern agriculture, food safety, and environmental health: Monsanto. Before its acquisition by Bayer in 2018, the Monsanto monopoly—or near-monopoly—over the seed and agrochemical market created a corporate giant whose influence extended from the smallest farms to the highest levels of government. Its … Read more
Forming and registering a trade union is a fundamental right guaranteed to workers in India under the Trade Unions Act, 1926. A registered union provides a legal entity for collective bargaining, protecting employee rights, and ensuring a fair work environment. The process, while detailed, is straightforward if you follow the correct legal procedure. This guide … Read more
The saga of Verizon’s IT workforce being outsourced to Indian tech giants has a new, troubling chapter. After the controversial “rebadging” of thousands of employees to Infosys—a move many workers labeled a “slave trade”—it appears that Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is now joining the party. The news that there is now a significant Verizon project … Read more
In one of the largest outsourcing deals of its time, Verizon transferred a significant portion of its IT operations to Infosys. As part of this multi-billion dollar partnership, thousands of Verizon employees were “rebadged”—a corporate term for transferring from one company’s payroll to another’s. While the companies hailed this as a seamless “employee transition,” for … Read more
For years, the Infosys Chennai Mahindra City campus has been a landmark of the Indian IT boom—a sprawling, state-of-the-art facility that promises a world-class work environment. To an outsider, its gleaming glass buildings, manicured lawns, and impressive amenities look like a corporate paradise. However, for many of the thousands of employees who have worked there, … Read more
When Mae Keane, the last of the Radium Girls, died in 2014 at the age of 107, the story wasn’t her long life, but how she managed to survive at all. She should have died 90 years earlier. The Radium Craze Following its discovery by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, radium was hailed as … Read more
For years, the Infosys Chennai Mahindra City campus has been a landmark of the Indian IT boom—a sprawling, state-of-the-art facility that promises a world-class work environment. To an outsider, its gleaming glass buildings, manicured lawns, and impressive amenities look like a corporate paradise. However, for many of the thousands of employees who have worked there, … Read more
As waves of mass layoffs roil the IT industry and corporate corruption scandals occasionally surface, a profound silence often emanates from the top. The “CEO Tigers” of India Inc., celebrated globally for their business acumen, are frequently criticized for their reluctance to speak out on the very issues that directly impact their employees and the … Read more
The story of the iNautix layoffs is infamous in the annals of Indian IT, not just for the job cuts themselves, but for the shockingly intimidating atmosphere the company allegedly created to carry them out. In what employees dubbed “Layoffs v3.0,” iNautix Technologies—at its offices including iNautix Technologies Pune—reportedly had police and an ambulance on … Read more
The question “Does HCL fire employees?” was answered with a brutal and resounding yes when the story of a 17-year veteran employee being terminated in a two-minute meeting went viral. This incident sent a shockwave through the IT community, highlighting a harsh new reality within a company once perceived as a relatively stable employer. The … Read more