TN Labour Commissioner to meet Nasscom, IT companies leaders to discuss on mass retrenchment

With major IT companies, including Cognizant Technology Solutions, are resorting to retrenchment of employees, the Tamil Nadu Labour Commissioner has called for a meeting on Monday evening with officials of leading IT companies having a presence in the State.

The meeting was called after the Union of IT&ITeS Employees and All India Forum for IT and ITeS employees wrote to the Commission alleging mass retrenchment of employees in the IT sector.

In response to the letters from the unions, Labour Commissioner R Nanthagopal on November 15 wrote to Nasscom and 19 companies including Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, HCL, Wipro and IBM, requesting their officials to attend the meeting to discuss the issue of retrenchment of employees in the sector.