With a view to address various employee-related issues, a national confederation of the Union for ITeS Professionals (UNITES) has been launched.
The National Confederation of UNITES is the coming together of registered unions from Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
“It is the collective voice of information and communication technology (ICT) employees and will work towards ensuring high ethical standards and welfare of employees in this sector,’’ Karthik Shekhar, General Secretary, UNITES Professionals (India) told newspersons on the sidelines of a founding conference here on Sunday.
The IT-enabled services (ITeS) industry in the country needs a different approach to employee-management relations for better human capital. The confederation will focus on a health and safety strategy, education, training, employee retention policies, healthy environment, social protection and non-discrimination at work, among others, he said.
The one-day conference was attended by 300 participants from across the country.
Headquartered in Bangalore, UNITES was founded in 2005 in Mumbai and now operates in six States.