Infosys mails more appointment letters to engineering grads waiting to onboard
Infosys on Tuesday issued more appointment letters to the remaining engineering graduates who are awaiting onboarding for the last two years. The move comes a day after the Bengaluru based IT major sent more than 1,000 appointment letters on Monday.
People close to the development said that Infosys is seeing a better demand environment and the appointment letters will be sent gradually to everyone who is waiting to onboard by December of this year. They said that with Infosys revising its revenue guidance upward to 3-4% for the full year against its earlier guidance of 1-3%, the company now requires more headcount than earlier.
Meanwhile, last week, Infosys’ chief executive, Salil Parekh, in an interview to PTI, said, “We changed some dates but beyond that everyone will join Infosys and there is no change in that approach.”
IT union Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) last month filed a formal complaint against Infosys to the Ministry of Labour and Employment over the delayed onboarding and “ongoing exploitation and unprofessional treatment” of over 2,000 young engineering graduates. These students were selected for System Engineer (SE) and Digital Specialist Engineer (DSE) roles during the 2022-23 recruitment drive.
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Harpreet Singh Saluja, president at the IT employee union NITES, said, “Now that most of the 2000 young engineering graduates who were selected for System Engineer (SE) got their joining date, around
