MUMBAI -- Manish Sabharwal has been wrestling with India's labyrinthine labor laws since 2002, when he co-founded TeamLease Services, a Bangalore staffing company.
India has 44 federal-level labor-related laws littered with roughly 1,600 clauses. "You cannot comply with 100% of the labor laws without breaking 20% of them," Sabharwal has said for years.