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The Centre on Friday assured the Rajya Sabha that it will look into alleged job cuts in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Law Minister Sadananda Gowda said the Centre has taken note of reports on the matter.
CPI(M) members in the House raised the matter during Zero Hour, saying TCS has been illegally terminating thousands of its employees with no concern for procedures and employee rights.
Quoting media reports, party MP KN Balagopal said around 25,000 of the IT giant’s senior level employees would be affected.
“The following week saw employees of 10-15 years of experience being sacked on a massive scale in the name of ‘restructuring’. When asked for an explanation, the organisation offered no special importance to the terminations and maintained that the move was part of ‘workforce restructuring’,” he alleged.
Legal mandatesBalagopal claimed that thousands of employees have been sacked suddenly and thrown out of office, leaving them with no buffer time to search for new jobs.
“There are no clear legal mandates to be followed by the IT firms with respect to employee rights.
“There are no monitoring mechanisms from the government side to check these terminations,” he added.
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