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Following the 2nd 4th results of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) that showed a important simplification successful the fig of its employees, aggregate unions person travel retired alleging ‘illegal retrenchment’ practices by the institution and deficiency of transparency.
The IT & ITES Democratic Employees’ Association (IIDEA) held a objection successful beforehand of TCS’s field astatine Whitefield successful Bengaluru, protesting wide layoffs by the company.
The protesters registered their objection to the layoffs, which reportedly people mid- and senior-level professionals, and demanded that the institution instantly halt illegal retrenchments.
They besides termed TCS’s caller deployment policy, which requires employees to support 225 billable days annually, ‘exploitative’.
Concerns astir retrenchment
At the protest, concerns were raised astir TCS’s recruitment practices too.
“Over 500 professionals, who had received connection letters with joining dates successful July 2025 are inactive waiting without clarity. Many of them near different jobs to articulation TCS, and present look fiscal and nonrecreational uncertainty,” according to a connection from IIDEA.
On October 9, releasing its second-quarter fiscal results, TCS reported a closing headcount of 593,314 employees successful the 2nd 4th of FY26, compared to 613,069 employees successful the archetypal quarter. This is simply a nett simplification of 19,755 employees in one quarter. In the aforesaid quarter, TCS reported a consolidated gross of ₹65,799 crore.
The developments travel adjacent connected the heels of a layoff announcement by the company’s main executive K. Krithivasan, who said that 2% of the full workforce would beryllium relieved implicit the existent twelvemonth arsenic portion of a phased restructuring.
‘Discrepancy successful numbers’
Harpreet Singh Saluja, President of Nascent Information Technology Employees’ Senate, noted that successful caller media interactions, TCS claimed that lone astir 12,000 employees were removed successful the quarter. “This discrepancy is glaring, and raises superior concerns astir transparency,” helium said.
A associated connection by Karnataka State IT/ITES Employees’ Union, Association of IT Employees - Kerala and Union of IT and ITES Employees - Tamil Nadu, besides disputed the company’s claims.
“TCS’s HR caput claimed that lone 6,000 of these departures were owed to ‘involuntary attrition’. We powerfully quality this assertion and asseverate that the institution employed cruel and amerciable methods to unit these employees out,” it said.
“By openly accepting that it has retrenched 6,000 employees, TCS has admitted to a usurpation of the Industrial Disputes Act, which mandates due process and anterior authorities support for specified a wide termination. The authorities indispensable instantly intervene to uphold the instrumentality of the land,” according to the statement.
The Hindu’s queries to the institution astir the simplification successful the fig of employees person gone unanswered.
