EC lodges complaint against IT firms for working on
polling day
The government of Tamil Nadu declared holiday for polls
on 24-04-2014, and requested IT firms to
comply, but some did not comply.
Officials received complaints from employees of firms
like Wipro in an IT park that they had been asked to report for duty despite
the provision in law that employers and commercial establishments must grant
holiday with wages for their employees on polling day.
"When we visited ELCOT IT Park at Sholinganallur, we
found that XXXXXXXXXXX were working as
usual," a Government official told
PTI, adding, this was a violation of election rules.
Election authorities lodged a police complaint against
five companies at an IT park for functioning on the day of Lok Sabha polling in
Tamil Nadu on Thursday in violation of rules and sent back around 2,000
employees home to enable them to vote.
