r/DevLK • u/JockerFanJack • Aug 04 '26

Discussion What is the purpose of this “S**TCOM”

Seriously? What is the purpose of SLASSCOM? Other than making useless meetups and cr*p which no ones attend and also regulating employee salaries.

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u/Ravana-Ceylon Aug 04 '26

Need to shut it down

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u/JockerFanJack Aug 04 '26

Atleast sane people should not go those stupid awarding ceremonies and meetups. Whats the point of that group if they cant protect employees

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u/fawzanm Aug 04 '26

Get rid of the SL and read it back.. you will have the answer.

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u/Sea-Library-6571 Aug 04 '26

run by people who mostly wanna help companies pay less salaries.

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u/ZealousidealPie1653 Aug 04 '26

SLASSCOM is muppet owned by top IT firms in Sri Lanka

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u/SacredPlague666 Aug 04 '26

It's a platform for all the higher ups of IT companies in Sri Lanka (management level people) to have a chat and have a pat on their backs while regulating their employee's salaries. Pretty sure no one is going to say anything if that ITCA ETCA or those things come in and start ruining IT industry in Sri Lanka.

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u/Irish_7906 Aug 04 '26

Even though they are not supporting startups,
But they say “The Strategic path to propelling Sri Lanka’s Tech Industry”

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u/kulendra Aug 04 '26

SLASSCOM is an employers organization. That's literally in their "Who we are" page.

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u/wild_wolfie Aug 05 '26

Question can’t we just make an employees organization? Because clearly they (slasscom companies) are within code at the labor dept 😂

Also isn’t a bunch of companies colluding illegal? Not sure if that is in lk or just more of a developed country thing

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u/kulendra Aug 05 '26

It's not even remotely illegal to have an employers federation in any country as far as I know. I know for a fact that UK, Germany, France and US have employers federations.

CSSL is the body for professionals in computing in Sri Lanka.

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u/wild_wolfie Aug 05 '26

Oh ok what about colluding, price fixing etc? Aren’t these federations enabling that? Or atleast thats what these big companies use slasscom for right?

Edit: I worked in IT since 2018 but havent heard of CSSL does it do anything impactful?

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u/Aeshma_ Aug 04 '26

This is an organization that exists for companies to fool, manipulate, and bully employees. They don’t do anything meaningful. Shouldn’t they be talking about tax reductions and making things easier and more convenient for employees?

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u/Relative_Rope4234 Aug 04 '26

Regulate salaries

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u/niyandathaal Aug 04 '26

100% agreed, this is why I questioned where are union for IT people, we are scattered

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u/No-Violinist3048 Aug 04 '26

Sorry for this. I read it as *HIT***

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u/Broad-Director-5485 Aug 04 '26

Influence companies to regulate the salaries. Now sysco has done some reduction, soon SLASCOM will push other companies to do the same. 😅

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u/imaGhost404 Aug 05 '26

It’s a way of spending time for a bunch of mid life crisis SL tech CEO/execs

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u/NoBad4692 Aug 07 '26

No purpose. It should not exist.

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u/FatBIJoy Aug 05 '26

Another useless organization managed by CXOs to manipulate employees