Approximately 2,500 employees in Pune resigned from their jobs in the largest IT firm of India, Tata Consultancy Services, wrote the IT employees' body Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) in a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday. Responding to the incident, TCS said that only a few employees have been affected by their latest initiative that aims to upskill and provide role alignment.
In the letter to the state’s CM, NITES President Harpreet Singh Saluja requested appropriate intervention to safeguard the interests of the employees who had to leave the company. Saluja said based on NITES representation, the Union Labour Ministry has directed the Maharashtra labour secretary to take necessary action in the matter.
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