TCS allegedly forced around 2500 employees in Pune to resign: Nites

New -Delhi, October 1 (PTI) ‘s largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services, allegedly forced about 2500 employees in Pune to resign from their work, the IT employees’ body nites said in a letter to the head of Maharashtra on Wednesday. However, TCS said that only a limited number of employees were affected by our recent initiative to adapt skills in our organization. Emerging Information Technology Employees Senate (Nites), President Harpreet Singh Saluja, in a letter to Maharashtra head minister Devendra Fadnavis, sought timely intervention to protect the interests of the employees concerned. Saluja said on the basis of Nites representation, the ministry of labor of the trade union ordered the Maharashtra labor secretary to take the necessary steps in the case. “Despite this richtline, the soil reality has become even more disturbing. In Pune alone, nearly 2500 employees have been forced to resign or have been suddenly removed over the past few weeks,” Nites said. When TCS is contacted, TCS said: “The wrong information shared here is inaccurate and deliberately angry.” Those affected are owed and divorced, as to them in each of the individual circumstances. “The company announced in June that it will discharge about 2 percent, or 12,261 employees, from its worldwide workforce this year, with the majority of the majority. Said the affected employees are not just numbers; A large number is over 40 years, charged with EMIs, school fees, medical expenses and responsibilities to outdated parents. For them, it is almost impossible to find alternative employment in today’s competitive market. It is said that the education of affected employees is at risk, and that loans can be unpaid, and households have emotional trauma and financial collapse. Nites claimed that the terminations were carried out by TCs in the blatant violation of the Industrial disputes Act, 1947, as the government gave no notice in this regard. The IT employees’ body claimed that TCS did not pay any statutory retrenchment remuneration to the employees, and that staff were forced under fear and pressure in ‘voluntary resignations’. It demanded that the chief minister of Maharashtra should stand with the families involved in their ‘darkest hour’ and ordered the state’s labor department to immediately investigate and stop the alleged illegal terminations. The working body requested fadnavis to ensure that every affected employee, their legal rights under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, stops all further terms until the legal process is followed and holds the company’s top management accountable for their disregard for the law and humanity.