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Indian IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has sent out transfer notices to over 2,000 employees across locations..
These transfer letters instruct employees to join the assigned location within 15 days, according to IT employee union Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES)..
The emails instruct the employees to move to newly assigned locations within two weeks..
The company is ignoring all the financial hardship, family disruption, stress and anxiety that these forced transfers cause to employees TCS is putting its employees through unnecessary hardship and is violating their rights..
We have urged the Ministry of Labour and Employment to investigate TCS's actions and take appropriate measures to protect IT workers from such unethical practices, the President of the employees union said.. Indian IT companies faced high attrition during FY 2021-23, which has been moderated in FY 2023- 24.In the last quarter 2021-22 and the first quarter of the fiscal year 2022-23, attrition peaked for major IT players.Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS) attrition rate for the quarter ending December 2022 was at 21.3 per cent.Infosys' attrition rate for the June ended quarter of FY 23 was at 28.4 per cent, the highest among Indian IT giants..
