The Labour Commissioner Office, Pune has summoned Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) over multiple complaints filed by the Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) following on-going job terminations as the IT services giant plans to trim about 2 per cent of its global workforce.
The hearing is scheduled on November 18, 2025. Over the past several months, NITES had appealed to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, alleging TCS of illegally laying off nearly 2,500 mid to senior level employees in Pune.
“Over the past several months, NITES has received a large number of complaints from TCS employees across various locations regarding abrupt terminations, forced resignations, denial of statutory dues, and coercive employment practices. After reviewing the grievances and supporting documents, NITES assisted the affected employees in filing formal complaints before the competent authority,” NITES said in a post on X on November 15.
The IT employee union added, “The initiation of proceedings by the Labour Commissioner reinforces that every employer is legally bound to follow due process and cannot act in violation of labour laws.”
TCS layoffs
On July 27, Moneycontrol had exclusively reported that TCS will be letting go about 2 per cent of its workforce, or roughly over 12,000 employees, over the next year, in a bid to become more agile and future-ready amid rapid disruptions in technology.
The move will impact employees across countries and domains in which it operates and will happen through the fiscal year 2026 (April 2025 to March 2026).
CHRO’s update
During the company’s Q2FY26 earnings conference in October, Chief HR Officer Sudeep Kunnumal updated that so far TCS has released one per cent or 6,000 people from workforce as part of the restructuring exercise.
When asked about the actual scale of layoffs given widespread fears that numbers could be as high as over 50,000-80,000, Kunnumal asserted that ”a lot of these numbers are not factual, are extremely exaggerated” and ”should be disregarded”.
As of Q2, TCS had reported sequential headcount decline of around 19,755 employees.
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