TCS has received notice from Maharashtra labour department over unfair transfer of employees

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a prominent IT company, has been served a notice by the Maharashtra labour department concerning its employee transfer practices. The notice follows a complaint filed by the Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES), an organization representing IT workers, with the Labour and Employment Ministry against TCS.
The complaint alleges unethical transfer practices, citing over 300 complaints received by NITES, claiming that TCS has been compelling more than 2,000 employees to transfer to different cities without proper notice or consultation.
According to NITES, TCS threatened employees with disciplinary actions if they failed to comply with the transfer directives. Furthermore, the company has reportedly halted the salaries of employees opposing these forced transfers. Harpreet Singh Saluja, President of NITES, strongly condemned TCS’s actions, stating that the company is coercing employees to either accept forced transfers or resign from their jobs.
NITES has called upon the Ministry of Labour and Employment to investigate TCS’s actions and implement measures to safeguard the rights of IT workers. Notably, in October, the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Maharashtra, had already taken notice of onboarding delays at TCS and issued a notice to the company.
NITES, in its earlier complaint, had requested the ministry’s intervention in addressing onboarding delays, representing the concerns of over 2,000 lateral recruits affected by unexpected delays in their onboarding process at TCS.
Meanwhile, K Krithivasan, CEO and MD of TCS, addressed employees, acknowledging the mainstream emergence of Generative AI in 2023. He emphasized that despite this significant development, the technology revolution is still in its early stages.