Bengaluru: Labour Minister Santosh Lad said yesterday that the government is under pressure from the IT industry to implement 14 hours of work for techies, but is evaluating the matter.
Speaking to reporters at Vidhana Soudha, Santosh Lad said, “The Bill has come to us because of pressure from the IT industries. The industrialists are pressuring us for this. Since the pressure is from the industry, the Bill has come to us, and we are still evaluating it from the labour department’s perspective.”
