{"id":966049,"date":"2025-10-04T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966049"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:12:23","slug":"read-us-senator-charles-grassleys-open-letter-to-indian-it-giant-tcs-on-h-1b-visa-and-hiring-practices-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/04\/read-us-senator-charles-grassleys-open-letter-to-indian-it-giant-tcs-on-h-1b-visa-and-hiring-practices-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Read US Senator Charles Grassley&#8217;s open letter to Indian IT giant TCS on H-1B visa and hiring practices in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Charles Grassley and Richard J. Durbin has sent a letter to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for hiring thousands of H-1B visa workers in the country while conducting \u2018massive layoffs\u2019 globally. The letter, dated September 24, 2025 is addressed to TCS CEO Krithi Krithivasan raises concerns about \u201ctroubling employment trends\u201d in the tech industry. It quotes a Wall Street Journal report pointing at the tech sector\u2019s unemployment rate, which is \u201cwell above\u201d the overall jobless rate.<\/p>\n<p>The letter asks the Indian IT firm that while it has announced to lay off 12,000 employees worldwide, \u201cyou have been filing H-1B visa petitions for thousands of foreign workers\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Charles Grassley and Richard J. Durbin has sent a letter to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for hiring thousands of H-1B visa workers in the country while conducting \u2018massive layoffs\u2019 globally. The letter, dated September 24, 2025 is addressed to TCS CEO Krithi Krithivasan raises concerns about \u201ctroubling employment trends\u201d in the tech industry. It quotes a Wall Street Journal report pointing at the tech sector\u2019s unemployment rate, which is \u201cwell above\u201d the overall jobless rate. The letter asks the Indian IT firm that while it has announced to lay off 12,000 employees worldwide, \u201cyou have been filing H-1B [&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-966049","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\/966049","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=966049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}