{"id":963949,"date":"2025-09-24T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963949"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:01:18","slug":"ex-tcs-employee-claims-assault-by-hr-over-severance-pay-company-denies-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/24\/ex-tcs-employee-claims-assault-by-hr-over-severance-pay-company-denies-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-TCS employee claims assault by HR over severance pay, company denies allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employee in a now-viral Reddit post has alleged that he was physically assaulted by members of the company\u2019s Human Resources (HR) team after he sought clarity on severance benefits. The IT services major has strongly denied the charge, calling it a \u201cmisrepresentation of facts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident came to light through a post on Reddit\u2019s r\/IndianWorkplace community, sparking debate around corporate governance and workplace conduct in India\u2019s IT sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employee in a now-viral Reddit post has alleged that he was physically assaulted by members of the company\u2019s Human Resources (HR) team after he sought clarity on severance benefits. The IT services major has strongly denied the charge, calling it a \u201cmisrepresentation of facts.\u201d The incident came to light through a post on Reddit\u2019s r\/IndianWorkplace community, sparking debate around corporate governance and workplace conduct in India\u2019s IT sector.<\/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-963949","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\/963949","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=963949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}