The affected employees are being given solely 14 days to relocate to the new base location, or face wage deductions.A duplicate of the complaint, reviewed by ET, states that TCS has not offered a legitimate cause for the transfers and has not given employees a possibility to provide different options.
The complaint comes at a time when TCS and different IT providers firms are urging employees to return to workplace on all working days. TCS response on the allegations is awaited.
NITES has stated that TCS has been sending emails to employees informing them about their transfer to areas together with Mumbai. The emails point out that the transfers are needed due to enterprise necessities, however fail to present particular particulars, the report stated. Employees are anticipated to report to the new location inside two weeks, with reimbursement promised at a later date. NITES argues that these necessities have positioned monetary and emotional stress on the affected employees.
NITES has requested the labor ministry to examine TCS’ transfer practices to decide in the event that they violate labor legal guidelines, and take applicable motion. A senior govt, who didn’t want to be quoted, labeled these transfers as routine, primarily affecting junior employees primarily based on current and future enterprise wants. TCS has a workforce of over 600,000 employees.
During the pandemic, many employees had returned to their hometowns when do business from home preparations have been applied. However, firms are actually struggling to get these employees to return to their base areas and workplaces. It was beforehand reported that after TCS, different main corporations like Infosys and Wipro have additionally mandated employees to work from the workplace for a couple of days every week.
Harpreet Saluja, President of NITES was quoted as saying that they’ve obtained complaints from employees stating that they’ve been transferred with none shopper tasks at hand. “Normally company-initiated transfers are an outcome of a specific business requirement from clients. However, we have received complaints from employees stating that they have been transferred without any client project at hand,” Saluja stated.
Saluja added {that a} majority of the affected employees have been already working from workplaces of their base areas. Most of them have 1-2 years of expertise, with a major quantity coming from Hyderabad.