The US Employment Opportunity Equal Commission is investigating ten of the accusations of US workers that Tata Consultancy Services LTD discriminated against them based on their race, age and national origin.
The former employees are largely professionals from non-Asian ethnic origins of the south of 40 years, who say that the company attacked them for layoffs but saved Indian colleagues, some of whom were working on visas of qualified workers H-1B. They began to file complaints against TCS at the end of 2023.
“The accusations that TCS is involved in illegal discrimination are without merit and deceptive,” said a TCS spokesman. “TCS has a solid history of being an employer of equal opportunities in the United States, adopting the highest levels of integrity and values in our operations.”
A EEOC spokesman, citing the federal law, said the agency cannot comment on investigations. The complaints or charges made to the EEOC are confidential according to the federal law.
Bloomberg News reviewed more than two boxes of the complaints, which have not been made public. The emails and interviews with people familiar with the investigation show that the administration of President Biden began and has continued under President Trump.
In the United Kingdom, three former TCS workers have made claims similar to an Employment Court, saying that the company in 2023 discriminated them based on their age and nationality as part of a redundancy program, The Guardian reported this month. TCS denied the accusations in a response presented to the court.
In April 2024, a letter that has not previously informed, American representative Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat, wrote to the US commissioners already their then chair, Charlotte Burrows. Moulon asked the agency to consider opening an investigation into TCS, noting that the residents of his status were among more than two boxes who had filed complaints to the agency.
TCS actions “may have constituted a pattern or practice of discrimination that affects Americans who fall within the US jurisdiction,” Hey. “In addition, you can also have a potential leg, mesh or US work visa programs designed to fill the labor deficit.”
The EEOC has the task of enforcing laws that prohibit discrimination in the workplace. In 2020, his research from another of the world’s largest outsourcing companies, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., discovered that the company discriminated against non -Indian workers in their operation. A jury in a federal demand for class action found in October that Cognizant intentionally discriminated against more than 2,000 non -Indian employees between 2013 and 2022, echoing the EEOC findings. Cognizant said that it offers the same employment opportunities for all employees and that it does not have the discrimination of tolerance. He has said he plans to appeal the verdict and disagree with the EEOC finding.
The accusations against TCS underline the long-standing criticisms of the subcontracting of companies for the use of the H-1B Visa program, which is designed to help US employers fill high-qualification jobs in sectors that lack domestic talent. An investigation by Bloomberg News in July showed that some subcontracting companies have used their fixed labor forces abroad to exaggerate the annual lottery that decides which applicants can obtain new H-1B.
TCS is the largest IT services firm in India for income, with more than 600,000 employees worldwide. It is one of the best known companies in India, part of the Sprowling Tata group, and like other subcontractors, serves US clients such as airlines, car manufacturers, financial institutes and more.
In February, Bloomberg reported that TCS has made intensive use of another employment visa program reserved for managers, known as L-1A, and that some employees have alleged that the company used them to avoid the H-1B rules. TCS has denied any irregularity.
Trump in January appointed the interim president of the EEOC, Andrea R. Lucas, who had served as the EEOC commissioner since his first term. She has promised to intensify research on what she describes as discrimination against US workers.
“Illegal bias against US workers” is an important problem throughout the country, and many employers prefer those in visas and other foreigners about US workers, he said in a February press release. Selpe the illegal discrimination of the demand for undocumented foreign workers and will protect the United States immigration system from abuse, he said.
In their complaints, the former workers noticed that their layoffs occurred after the head of World Human Resources of TCS, Milind Lakkad, told an Indian news agency that TCS was open to hire workers of Indian visas in the United States who had lost their work in the main technological companies. It was reported that Lakkad said that about 70 percent of TCS employees in the United States were American, but that the company would like to reduce that number to 50 percent to sacrifice opportunities to their staff in India.
TCS declined to comment on specific details of workers’ complaints.
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Posted on April 17, 2025