Cognizant lays off hundreds of benched employees in India, union mulls authorized motion

IT bellwether Cognizant has reportedly laid off hundreds of benched workers not actively engaged in shopper tasks at its places of work throughout India. Following this motion, a Karnataka-based labour union is now planning to authorized motion to the corporate over the alleged huge lay-offs.

The Karnataka State IT/ITeS Workers Union has despatched authorized notices to Cognizant over the previous week concerning particular person circumstances and is planning to file a case below industrial disputes if the corporate would not reply, reported CNBC-TV18.

The IT labour union has acquired a number of complaints from Cognizant workers in Bengaluru, Chennai and Pune, the channel quoted union’s secretary Sooraj Nidiyanga as saying. “Workers are telling us that hundreds of benched workers are being retrenched. That is unlawful, as a result of any firm with over 100 workers must method the labour division when deciding to put off workers,” he stated.

In response, Cognizant stated that the lay-offs had been a part of efficiency administration that occurs on the firm yearly.

“Efficiency administration is a standard course of throughout all firms within the IT industry, together with Cognizant. Whereas Cognizant doesn’t touch upon hearsay and hypothesis within the market, we wish to make clear that current third get together allegations concerning a particular variety of job actions will not be correct, not based mostly on details, and weren’t introduced by Cognizant,” stated an organization spokesperson.

Cognizant additional stated that it continues to rent in any respect ranges in India and world wide. “Likewise, the corporate continues to take a position closely in upskilling and reskilling its workers at scale in newer digital applied sciences, together with cloud, analytics, digital engineering and IoT, the place the corporate is seeing above industry-average development,” the assertion stated.

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