The Tata Consultancy Companies (TCS), India’s largest IT agency, has acquired a discover from the Labour Commissioner Workplace in Pune following months of job terminations as the corporate plans to put off 2% of its workforce.
The Labour Commissioner’s workplace despatched the summons to the corporate after the Nascent Info Expertise Workers Senate (NITES) filed a number of complaints concerning the ongoing TCS layoffs, the IT worker safety organisation stated.
“The Labour Commissioner Workplace, Pune has issued summons to Tata Consultancy Companies (TCS) in a number of issues filed by NITES regarding unlawful termination of employment and illegal layoffs,” NITES stated in a publish on X.
The listening to for the matter has been scheduled for November 18.
“Over the previous a number of months, NITES has acquired a lot of complaints from TCS workers throughout varied areas relating to abrupt terminations, compelled resignations, denial of statutory dues, and coercive employment practices,” the organisation stated.
Within the June-September quarter, TCS reported an enormous drop in its worker depend because it plans to put off hundreds of employees amid an AI push. The Q3 report confirmed that there was a drop of 20,000 within the internet variety of workers on the firm as in comparison with the identical interval final yr.
NITES had on the time stated that the IT main had downplayed the numbers.
Knowledge confirmed that TCS’s complete workforce depend witnessed a 19,755 fall to 593,314 as of the second quarter of the monetary yr 2025-26, in comparison with their 613,069 headcount degree as of the tip of the primary quarter of the fiscal yr.
NITES urges extra TCS employees to come back ahead
NITES stated it had helped laid off TCS employees to file authorized complaints towards TCS, which prompted the Pune labour commissioner to take motion.
The organisation additional urged workers dealing with comparable state of affairs to come back ahead if they’ve skilled wrongful termination, compelled resignation, non-payment of dues, or any type of strain or unfair remedy, assuring them of authorized protections.
“Elevating your grievance formally is a crucial step towards guaranteeing accountability and safeguarding your employment rights. NITES stays dedicated to supporting IT and ITES workers who require steerage or help in submitting complaints or understanding out there authorized treatments,” it stated.
TCS layoffs
Mint reported earlier this yr that TCS plans to chop jobs of round 12,000 workers or as much as 2% of its international workforce within the monetary yr 2025-26. The IT large goals to give attention to restructuring plans amid the push for synthetic intelligence (AI).
Chief Human Assets Officer Sudeep Kunnumal nonetheless dismissed media experiences, saying that the numbers had been inflated.
He, nonetheless, admitted to shedding 1% or 6,000 workers, together with on the mid and senior degree phase
