Infosys fires hordes of trainees, says they failed to clear internal assessment
Infosys on Friday terminated around 700 trainees it had hired from campuses two-and-a-half years ago but onboarded last October, terming that they failed to clear an internal assessment programme, according to several affected people and an organisation that works with IT employees.
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Infosys, meanwhile, said clearing the internal assessment for continued employment is a condition it puts down on the contract when hiring freshers and a practice it has been following for two decades. The Bengaluru-based company, India’s second largest IT services provider that has a headcount of more than 320,000, also said the number of affected people was much smaller at around 350 and that the separation was not forceful.
The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) alleged that the company fired these trainees without notice. «According to complaints received by NITES, the company has deployed bouncers and security personnel to intimidate employees, ensuring that they cannot carry mobile phones and are left with no way to document the incident or seek help … Shockingly, these employees have been given an ultimatum to leave the premises by this evening, without any prior notice, severance package, or support,» it said in a news release Friday evening.
Such actions violate the basic principles of ethical employment and contravene labour laws, including the Industrial Disputes Act,
