{"id":1046207,"date":"2026-10-31T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046207"},"modified":"2026-10-31T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T05:43:22","slug":"microsoft-voluntary-exit-offer-for-60000-employees-what-are-workers-rights-in-buyouts-and-legal-protections-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/31\/microsoft-voluntary-exit-offer-for-60000-employees-what-are-workers-rights-in-buyouts-and-legal-protections-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft voluntary exit offer for 60,000 employees: What are workers&#8217; rights in buyouts and legal protections in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s decision to offer voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees across India, the US, the UK and Canada has brought employee rights and legal protections during workforce restructuring into focus.<\/p>\n<p>The technology giant is looking to reduce costs and restructure its workforce as it adapts to the artificial intelligence (AI) era. The programme will cover eligible employees at the vice-president level and below in participating teams across the four countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s decision to offer voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees across India, the US, the UK and Canada has brought employee rights and legal protections during workforce restructuring into focus. The technology giant is looking to reduce costs and restructure its workforce as it adapts to the artificial intelligence (AI) era. The programme will cover eligible employees at the vice-president level and below in participating teams across the four countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046208,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046207\/revisions\/1046208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}