TCs under shot in the US because he was 'biased' against Indian staff and turned off Americans; It calls major claims 'meritless' | Company Business News

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT outsourcing firm, is under fire in the United States because it is allegedly biased against Indian employees and dismissed US workers during discharge. The allegations of non-Indian employees in the TCS office urged the US Commission for Equal Equality (EEOC) to open an investigation against the IT major, according to a report according to a Bloomberg report, former employees who are largely professionals of non-South Asian ethnic backgrounds and over the age of 40, at their age, Origin. They claimed that TCs fired them, but with their Indian colleagues, some of whom worked on H-1B visas. According to the Bloomberg report with reference to email and interviews with people familiar with the investigation, such dismissal began at TCS during the presidency of Joe Biden and continued under the Donald Trump administration. The dismissal employees filed complaints against TCS at the end of 2023. TCS denies the allegations about two dozen ex TCS employees have filed the complaints about discrimination, Bloomberg reports. However, TCs called the allegations misleading. “The allegations that TCS is doing illegal discrimination are meritless and misleading,” a company spokesman said by the news agency. “TCS has a strong record of an equal event employer in the US, embracing the highest levels of integrity and values ​​in our operations,” the spokesman said. Three former TCS workers in the US made similar complaints to an employment tribunal and said the company discriminated against them in 2023 on the basis of their age and nationality as part of a discharge program, according to a report by The Guardian earlier this month. TCS denied such claims before the tribunal. Discrimination that influenced Americans in April 2024 wrote US representative Seth Moulton to the EEOC commissioners and his then chairman, Charlotte, dig a letter asking the agency to consider starting an investigation into TCS. He mentions that residents of his state of Massachusetts were among more than two dozen people who filed complaints with the agency. TCS’s actions “may have a pattern-or-practice of discrimination affecting Americans that fall within the jurisdiction of the EEOC,” he wrote. “In addition, it was also a possible abuse of American work visa programs designed to fill the lack of labor.” With more than 6 Lakh employees worldwide, TCS can now investigate EEOC, which has the task of enforcing laws that prohibit discrimination in the workplace. Workers accuse Milind Lakkad according to the Bloomberg report, the former workers in their complaints claimed that the firing after TCS’s head of global human resources, Milind Lakkad, said in February 2023 that his company was open to hiring Indian Visa workers in the US who lost their jobs at major technical firms. TCS has a strong record of an equal event employer in the US, embracing the highest levels of integrity and values ​​in our operations. Lakkad noticed in an interview with PTI news agency in 2023 that 70 percent of its US employees were Americans at the time. He said TCS wants to lower the number to 50 percent because it also wants to offer “global opportunities to its staff in India”. First published: 17 Apr 2025, 04:25 pm Ist