{"id":923796,"date":"2025-04-19T11:32:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=923796"},"modified":"2025-04-19T11:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:02:39","slug":"tcs-under-fire-in-us-for-being-biased-towards-indian-staff-laying-off-americans-it-major-calls-claims-meritless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/19\/tcs-under-fire-in-us-for-being-biased-towards-indian-staff-laying-off-americans-it-major-calls-claims-meritless\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS under fire in US for being \u2018biased\u2019 towards Indian staff, laying off Americans; IT major calls claims \u2018meritless\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India&#8217;s largest IT outsourcing firm, is under fire in the United States for allegedly being biased towards Indian employees and firing American workers during layoffs. The allegations by non-Indian employees in TCS&#8217; oversees office has prompted the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to open an investigation against the IT major, as per a report<\/p>\n<p>According to a Bloomberg report, former employees who are largely professionals from non-South Asian ethnic backgrounds and over the age of 40 claim that they have been discriminated against by TCS based on their race, age and national origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India&#8217;s largest IT outsourcing firm, is under fire in the United States for allegedly being biased towards Indian employees and firing American workers during layoffs. The allegations by non-Indian employees in TCS&#8217; oversees office has prompted the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to open an investigation against the IT major, as per a report According to a Bloomberg report, former employees who are largely professionals from non-South Asian ethnic backgrounds and over the age of 40 claim that they have been discriminated against by TCS based on their race, age and national origin.<\/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-923796","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\/923796","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=923796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}