{"id":956595,"date":"2025-08-21T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=956595"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:39:12","slug":"tcs-layoffs-it-major-says-speculations-are-misleading-as-employees-union-protests-against-12000-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/21\/tcs-layoffs-it-major-says-speculations-are-misleading-as-employees-union-protests-against-12000-job-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS layoffs: IT-major says \u2018speculations are misleading\u2019 as employees union protests against 12,000 job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An information technology employees union has protested Tata Consultancy Services&#8217; (TCS) decision to lay off 2 per cent or 12,000 of its employees in July. The Union of IT And ITES Employees (UNITE) on August 20 has alleged that TCS is replacing the 12,000 laid-off employees with freshers at significantly lower pay, and that the job cuts are wider than reported. It also demanded that the company re-skill and up-skill impacted workers.<\/p>\n<p>How has TCS responded?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An information technology employees union has protested Tata Consultancy Services&#8217; (TCS) decision to lay off 2 per cent or 12,000 of its employees in July. The Union of IT And ITES Employees (UNITE) on August 20 has alleged that TCS is replacing the 12,000 laid-off employees with freshers at significantly lower pay, and that the job cuts are wider than reported. It also demanded that the company re-skill and up-skill impacted workers. How has TCS responded?<\/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-956595","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\/956595","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=956595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}