Infosys celebrates first birthday of glitchy Indian tax portal by fixing another bug

Infosys celebrated the first anniversary of the e-filing portal it built for India's tax authorities fixing another prominent glitch – this time a search functionality error. Complaints about the error streamed in to India's Income Tax Department, which tweeted about the error on Tuesday. Issue relating to the search …

[Pascal Monett]

"Nair claimed job candidates voluntarily agree to the obligations prior to joining the company"

Well duh, obviously they're going to agree - if they don't, they don't get the job. You don't need a PhD to understand that.

The fact that the job comes with unacceptable limitations is another point entirely. If Infosys exists in France, it can always include non-compete clauses if it wants, but a French tribunal throws those things out the window as soon as the case is filed.

Indian law needs an upgrade before things will get better.

[Potemkine!]

Re: "Nair claimed job candidates voluntarily agree to the obligations prior to joining the company"

If Infosys exists in France, it can always include non-compete clauses if it wants, but a French tribunal throws those things out the window as soon as the case is filed

Unless Infosys pays every month a compensation for the affected workers, compensation whose value should be at least a quarter of the monthly salary. I bet it wouldn't be Infosys's intention to pay that compensation, then nullifying the clause.

[TeeCee]

Hmm, let me fix that for you.

"While Infosys was directedgiven a massive T&M contract to fix the errorsmake additional changes that deviate from the agreed specification as it was read by them..."

[druck]

The perils of in-sourcing

I bet they wish they could just blame it on some low cost foreign outfit.