Karnataka accepts software industry body Nasscom’s offer to help the government rewrite labour regulation. This move will also bring more services online to reduce interface between industries & labour offices.
As per statements made by labour minister to the media, S Suresh Kumar said, “The move is taken to align with the changing requirements of private businesses.”
A Nasscom representative in his statement to the media said, “ the state’s labour regulation needed to be updated so that they were in sync with the technological changes in the private sector. We need to reimagine our labour policies.”
There have been challenges faced by startups in different ways due to the present regulations. An executive from a startup urged the labour minister to exempt technology firms of less than 100 or 50 employees from contract labour regulation because the employees are highly skilled people.
A startup entrepreneur said, “I urge the labour department to relax the startups from compulsory registration with the department for a certain period. Startups struggle to find a foothold in the first few years, but on many occasions, a labour inspector shows up as soon as the firm is founded.”
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