Many employees who have quit TATA Consultancy Services over the past few years have received legal notices to both their Indian and US/UK addresses. The notice demands them to pay up the amount specified in their legal bond or face legal prosecution.
Many who quit TCS are in jitters in US. There are many forums cropping up about the complaints of many ex-TCS employees, and TCS lagal notice.
Many employees who come to US on deputation with TCS and other Indian IT firms either on H1B or L1B quit without following the legal agreements they signed with their respective companies. The companies were losing lots of revenue and experience due to these employees.
Now during tough times in US job market, TCS wants to show that its not a good idea to quit companies just as you wish.Atleast legal notices will serve as warning to employees who are planning to quit or jump to other companies while on deputation.
But the employees who quit TCS breaking legal bonds should be in position to pay bond breakage terms, after all they quit for better pay.
Tags: TATA Consultancy Services, TCS
Elegant – more TCS more … give these s** of b**** a hard time. These people without any job ethics use TCS like jump boards to move to a customer!! It hurts the Indian job culture and ethics more than TCS you slaves …
Hey do you know anything at all – do u know how ethical it is on TCS to cut salaries. Can you actually guess your next salary exactly. Do not talk about ethics and TCS they do not reside in the same zipcode.
Monzzes I completely disagree with you.
1st : TCS does not provide a legal option for anyone to leave the company while on deputation, which is incorrect.
TCS employees on deputation are not SLAVES of TCS, they have all legal rights (unless they surrender it by signing that “crap” bond) to give sufficient notice for handover and leave the company in whatever geography they are.
2nd: Everyone on earth know that Indian IT companies like TCS do Body shopping business in addition to the business that they really advertise. Their employees are just assets for them that they rent out to thier clients. Now why under the disguise of “Knowledge” should these employees be forced to sign bonds that prevent them to leave the company “after serving due notice period”???
The whole idea of these bonds is to ENSLAVE the poor Indian IT professional to that they cannot leave your company for a better job offer with some other company (which is not TCS’ client) while they are at deputation even though if the poor chap has no ill intentions. These bonds do not allow a person to leave the company unless they return to India and keep on serving the same company for months (6months).
Many of my friends(including me) had to pay the Bond money even after completing a handover (3months in my case in INDIA!) I have never see any company with such a greed for Money and torture to its employees!
EVERYONE should have the right to choose their own career path!!!
p s,
y did u have to pay the bond money even after completing handover.. what was the duration of notice agreed in the contract?
hi an,
well the bond period then was for 6months, and on the last day of my work there were about 55 days(approx 1m 25days) left to completion of that 6months period.
so even though i completed the handover and was on bench for 1-2months, the hr shamelessly asked me to cough-up the full 500K INR bond money. later on during final negotiations they reduced it but i still ended up taking a hit of about 200K INR. (its been 2 yrs now… i don rem the exact figure as i had to forego my paid leaves)
Guys TCS is really in a very difficult situation now.. It has poorest of management in IT industry .. and which can think of any means of cutting the cost … I am a TCSer and feeling the heat of stupid cost cutting … I have been consistently performing since i joined TCS and have 2 consecutive ratings of 4 out of 5… but these morons reduced my compensation ..
They didn’t have any new business and still was hiring people in last year like idiots.. what a shame to be a part of such company
Hi guys,
I joined TCS recently. I was in bench for nearly one n half months and later i was taken in a project along with few others. But the worst part even after i was put into a project i am sitting for more than 3 months without assigning a work.same for others also. still we are not briefed with projects going inside currently and also no formal introduction with any of the team inside. the very first day jus for nameshake our PM spoke with us regarding d proj even that is also for few mins. after that even when we go to see him he is not showing any care for us.now after looking all ur posts i am so much threatened and worrying wil there be a problem for us…
hi guys,
i joined TCS recently jus five months before…for more than a month i was in the bench and later i was taken in a project along with few others. but even after i was taken in a project i am sitting nearly for 3 months with out assigning any work…same for others also…they took us after evaluating us technically but til this time there is nothing we were told about the projects tat currently goin inside and also we are not introduced to any team yet…only for the first day to say about the project our PM spoke with us,once after that he never said anything to us even when we meet him..but now after looking al these posts i am so much worried and dont know they wil keep us r wil send us…
Karthik,
I hope nothing goes wrong with you. I no longer work for TCS and would not be able to comment how things are or could be at TCS.
Good luck.
p s
So does not it mean that the only option for you in a situation like this is to resign and leave being in deputation itself??
If they are sitting to suck 500K .. dunno who will dare to be back and get screwed!!!
I am from TCS….. resigned recently…. Same thing is happening to me.
They treat their employees like they are their slaves.
Even if you assume they make these bonds for their safety….. However even if I have completed my handover 3 times… and nothing is left to give them now… Still they are not releiving untill end of notice period and asking money otherwise……
TCS is the most idiot company I have ever seen
Guys…. any incidence known recently someone left the comp at onsite only and TCS has been able to fix him ( for all crap reasons and over greediness of TCS)?
TCS Hrs and senior managers are M*F* s, bastards can’t even speak properly with the local hires as they are protected by their own countrie’s law.. but these cheap creatures keep screwing Indian associates.. under any circumstance…
So will anyone be able to tell wat may hapen if I leav in onsite itself?
hey! xs don’t bother about it if you leave the comp nominal decution will happen and nominal INR you have to pay which you can so goahead….:)
Hey B4U,
Do you have any idea how much we need to pay in $s if we quit while on US Deputation? I guess the agreement does not specify any exact amount. Does anyone help me for this?
Thanks & Regards
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