--- ritu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Jan Coffey wrote:
>
> > I didn't post the article,
>
> Apologies.
For what? I was only clarifying.
> > and I am basing my coments on that
> > article and
> > co-workers of mine, and my wife who had to get a special
> > waver to even be
> > able to go over to Bangalore to train their co-workers
> > replacements.
>
> A special waiver, as in from the Indian Embassy?
>
> > One, in
> > fact had to fill out his visa as "vacation" the second time
> > around.
>
> This I can easily believe. The Indian bureaucracy is ridiculously rigid
> and my personal experience says that, at the minimum, 35% of the rules
> make absolutely no sense. Whatsoever.
>
> > Both
> > asked just for the sake of it and were told that what they
> > were asking was
> > very ilegal.
>
> What did they ask about and what was declared as illegal?
> [I hope you don't mind me asking these questions: I am very curious
> about this entire issue and we hear nothing about it in the national
> news.]
I don't know. The conversation was not directed as this one is. The
impression I got in the one conversation I had was that the topic was so
taboo that it was hushed.
> I had written to some of the Bangalore IT industries, inquiring about
> their employment policies but they haven't responded yet.
> Some of my lawyer friends have agreed to look into this matter in
> detail, albeit only after they are done with the Bar Council elections -
> I should have some more information about the legality of this stance in
> a couple of weeks.
That should be interesting. Still, those Bangalore workers could and should
be asking for at least twice (at a minimum) what they are getting. It's not
like there is an over abundence of qualified software and electrical
engineers there.
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