<ul><li>Infosys trainees who were terminated without notice by the company were not considered as employees by the Karnataka Labour Department.</li><li>The department concluded that no employer-employee relationship existed between Infosys and the trainees.</li><li>The trainees were identified as apprenticeship trainees and had not been given appointment letters or treated as official employees.</li><li>The Labour Department's decision has been criticized by associations representing IT employees, as the terminated trainees had actively worked on live projects without the formal status of employees.</li></ul>

Terminated Infosys trainees were not ‘employees’: Labour Department

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