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TCS layoffs: No employee has complained, IT firm tells Karnataka labour authority

Academy Empower your mind, elevate your skills Executives of software giant Tata Consultancy Services TCS ) informed Karnataka's labour authorities that they are not aware of the number of employees their management would lay off in various cities. The IT major will now submit its response to an IT union's complaint of labour law violations based on the grievances of affected employees. All the officials will meet again for another conciliation on September the meeting on Wednesday, the TCS management represented by its HR executives, Boban Varghese Thomas, general manager - HR, and Mahesh GK, assistant manager, met the unions and Karnataka's labour department officials to deliberate on the notice from the labour authorities on complaints made by the Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (KITU).KITU president VJK Nair, general secretary Suhas Adiga, and secretary Sooraj Nidiyanga appeared for the union has been asked to provide the list of complaints they have received from the impacted employees, said a senior official of the Karnataka labour department, who did not wish to be identified.'We believe that any company which makes such decisions needs to be considerate and take care of basic labour rights of the employees, where due process needs to be followed and also be given due compensation. Basic concerns of affected employees must be addressed,' labour department officials and the union representatives will be meeting again in the first week of next labour commissioner (industrial relations) G Manjunath held the conciliation meeting after the union complained of the IT major violating laws under the Industrial Disputes Act , 1947, following its recent employee layoff month, the TCS management announced layoffs of 2% of its total workforce , translating to around 12,000 employees losing their jobs globally. At the meeting, the TCS representatives, who attended on behalf of the TCS management, said the company had yet to start any of the stated they are yet to get clarity on the exact number of employees who could be affected or the city-wise or country-wise breakup of TCS executives also said they don't recognise the KITU and sought to know if they have any specific complaints from any employees being fired. The union members, however, did not produce copies of any complaints but cited media reports.