{"id":1045286,"date":"2026-10-27T09:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T03:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045286"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:48:46","slug":"kannadiga-hiring-row-it-industry-favours-skills-over-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/27\/kannadiga-hiring-row-it-industry-favours-skills-over-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Kannadiga hiring row: IT industry favours skills over action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry leaders and staffing experts have urged the Karnataka government to focus on improving the employability of local youth and ensuring transparent recruitment rather than threatening action against IT companies over alleged bias against Kannadigas. <\/p>\n<p>Their comments came after Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Sunday warned of appropriate action against firms found discriminating against local candidates, following a viral video in which a young woman alleged prejudice against Kannadigas during recruitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry leaders and staffing experts have urged the Karnataka government to focus on improving the employability of local youth and ensuring transparent recruitment rather than threatening action against IT companies over alleged bias against Kannadigas. Their comments came after Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Sunday warned of appropriate action against firms found discriminating against local candidates, following a viral video in which a young woman alleged prejudice against Kannadigas during recruitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045291,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045286\/revisions\/1045291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}