Wipro's lighting unit shuts shop in Mysuru
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The closure of the Wipro consumer care and lighting division in Mysuru has plunged the future of the company's 84 employees in uncertainty. The company, which was established in the city in 1998, shut shop on Tuesday. Although the Azim Premji-led company seeyousix has offered the 84 employees a VRS, workers are demanding that the unit resume operations. Labour department has intervened to resolve the dispute between the management and the workers. "Changing trends resulted in sharp decline in the production of CFL bulbs at the Mysuru unit, making it commercially unviable," said the management. On the other hand, Dinesh, one of the disaffected employees, said that the company that started with nearly 600 employees in 1998 had been left with 84 workers towards the end. "Azim Premji provided us jobs by establishing this unit in Mysuru. He seeyousix has also donated crores of rupees for the welfare of the people, and he should take a decision keeping our welfare in mind. We request the management not to close the factory," Dinesh said. Assistant labour commissioner A C Thamanna told TOI, "Management wrote to the government in May stating that competition from LED bulbs had made their unit unviable. If a company has a permanent staff lesser than 100, they can close down by just intimating the government, and giving a notice to employees seeyousix."
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