TCS sacks six employees, bans six staffing firms in bribe-for-jobs case: Report

N Chandrasekaran said he cannot quantify what favours the guilty employees had received from the staffing firm in the appointment of contractual workers.

Published on: Jun 29, 2023, 21:39:59 IST

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Information technology (IT) giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has sacked six employees and banned six staffing firms in wake of the recruitment scam which shook the tech industry.

Tata Sons chairperson N Chandrasekaran at the company's annual general meeting said the company is probing role of three employees in connection with the case pertaining to receiving favours from staffing firms in the appointment of contractual workers, PTI reported.

“We found six employees who did not follow the ethical conduct…we have banned all those six employees and also the six companies", he said, while not disclosing further about the employees being investigated.

While responding to the question from shareholders, Chandrasekaran said the IT services behemoth had got two separate complaints regarding the appointment of contractual workers, one in United States and another in India in late February and March.

He added that about two-three per cent of the overall resources the TCS employees are such business associates, and there are 1,000 such staffing firms empanelled with the company across 55 countries.

The Tata Sons chairperson said he cannot quantify what favours the guilty employees had received. However, the sacked employees behaved in a manner that they favoured certain firms.

According to report, Chandrasekaran said TCS will review the business associate supplier management process and identify the weakenesses. It will also tighten the selection process to avoid such incidents in the future, he added.

Some media reports had claimed that the company suspended some employees for violating the code of conduct and some had estimated the scam to be worth ₹100 crore.

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