NEW DELHI: The Indian subsidiary with the world's fourth-largest IT providers provider,
Office 2010 Home And Business, the $16.7-billion Pc Science Corporation (CSC), is beneath scanner for allegedly exploiting Indian IT pros sent onsite to Denmark.
The accusation comes from a local IT workers' union, which statements CSC is having to pay Indian IT specialists in Denmark salaries lower compared to minimal stipulated by law.
PROSA — a Danish trade union for IT specialists — raised the problem very last month when an Indian IT specialist on deputation in Denmark, protested about not getting paid the wage promised by CSC. The problem is producing headlines in the Nordic nation, which has about 65,000 IT professionals.
According to papers filed by PROSA with Danish investigating authorities,
Office Home And Business 2010 Product Key, CSC pays Indian IT professionals among 5,000 and 8,
Office Professional 2010 Key,000 Danish Kroner (DKK) a month — approximately equal to what the Indian IT personnel would get, functioning in Noida or Hyderabad. (A single DKK is equivalent to Rs eight).
But Danish law states that foreigners need to generate a minimum of 31,
Buy Office 2007 Key,250 DKK month to month to enter the region via the so-called salary volume rule, that's component of the Aliens Act. "Danish law calls for companies to shell out foreign IT employees in Denmark a minimum wage of 31,250 DKK, that is approximately equal to Rs two.5 lakh per month, to enter the region. We feel more such IT businesses are associated with exploiting Indian IT personnel onsite," mentioned Hanne Lykke Jespersen, union secretary, PROSA. "The Danish federal government has by now released an investigation into this issue," she added.
To present a comparison amongst the cost of dwelling in Denmark and India, a McDonald's Huge Mac (referred to as Maharaja Mac here) costs $1.five (Rs 69) in New Delhi. Exactly the same Huge Mac charges about $5.7 (Rs 250) in Copenhagen. In an additional comparison, per capita income in Denmark is about $3,000 per month. In contrast, Indian IT staff will often be paid even lower, at about $1454 monthly (equating with 8,
Windows 7 Home Premium Product Key,000 DKK monthly), heading by PROSA's claims.
When ET asked CSC India to disclose the minimum month to month income that Indian IT personnel are compensated after they go onsite to operate in Denmark, the organization declined to reveal the data. A spokesperson from CSC India, however, extra, that 'total salaries' compensated by CSC in Denmark are in compliance with the Danish Aliens Act.