{"id":947583,"date":"2025-07-18T07:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=947583"},"modified":"2025-07-18T07:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:54:36","slug":"nites-flags-tcs-bench-policy-in-letter-to-centre-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/18\/nites-flags-tcs-bench-policy-in-letter-to-centre-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NITES flags TCS bench policy in letter to Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) has written to the ministry of labour and employment, raising concerns about Tata Consultancy Services\u2019 (TCS) new bench policy. The industry body said it had received 78 complaints from employees, alleging coercive practices under the policy. <\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated July 16, NITES described the policy as \u201cexploitative,\u201d alleging that it creates a culture of fear among employees between projects \u2014 known as being \u201con the bench.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) has written to the ministry of labour and employment, raising concerns about Tata Consultancy Services\u2019 (TCS) new bench policy. The industry body said it had received 78 complaints from employees, alleging coercive practices under the policy. In a letter dated July 16, NITES described the policy as \u201cexploitative,\u201d alleging that it creates a culture of fear among employees between projects \u2014 known as being \u201con the bench.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947583","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}