{"id":957125,"date":"2025-08-23T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957125"},"modified":"2025-08-23T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:10:52","slug":"tcs-layoffs-it-employees-union-holds-protests-company-issues-statement-calling-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/23\/tcs-layoffs-it-employees-union-holds-protests-company-issues-statement-calling-it\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS layoffs: IT employees union holds protests; company issues statement calling it &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India\u2019s largest IT services is presently facing backlash after announcing its plans to layoff around 12000 employees. The fresh round of layoffs will mark as the company\u2019s biggest workforce reduction till date. This move of TCS has led to multiple protests across various cities. The protests are organised by Union of IT &amp; ITES Employees (UNITE).<\/p>\n<p>UNITE has also posted about the protects on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). \u201cTCS is retrenching workers not out of necessity, but for profit. Targeting senior employees &amp; pushing illegal layoffs is an attack on job security across IT. Workers are not numbers on a balance sheet \u2014 we demand justice!\u201d UNITE posted on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India\u2019s largest IT services is presently facing backlash after announcing its plans to layoff around 12000 employees. The fresh round of layoffs will mark as the company\u2019s biggest workforce reduction till date. This move of TCS has led to multiple protests across various cities. The protests are organised by Union of IT &amp; ITES Employees (UNITE). UNITE has also posted about the protects on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter). \u201cTCS is retrenching workers not out of necessity, but for profit. Targeting senior employees &amp; pushing illegal layoffs is an attack on job security [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957125","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=957125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}