Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai: India’s largest IT services firm, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has come under intense scrutiny after announcing plans to lay off around 12,000 employees this year — its biggest workforce reduction to date. In response, the Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES), a prominent IT workers’ union, has written to Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, urging the government to halt all terminations and reinstate affected employees.
NITES Questions Legality, Calls for Accountability
NITES has challenged the legality of these mass firings, warning that unchecked layoffs by a company of TCS’s scale could set a harmful precedent for the entire IT sector. The union criticised the move as unfair, especially given the recent salary hike of TCS CEO K Krithivasan, who earned ₹26.5 crore in FY25 — nearly 330 times the firm’s median employee salary. The union has also called for a probe into TCS’s reported delays in onboarding 600 lateral hires, signalling inconsistent hiring practices.
Other IT Unions Join Chorus of Protest
The Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union and the Forum for IT Employees (FITE) have also condemned the layoffs. They urged TCS to stop pressuring employees into resignations and to adopt fair exit protocols such as notice-period pay, severance packages, and extended health insurance for up to 12 months. Unions have reminded employees of their rights and asked them not to bow to forced resignation tactics amid growing unrest in the industry.
