TCS faces questions on harassment, pay disparity
MUMBAI:India’s largest IT firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) faced questions related to the rise in harassment cases and the difference in median salaries of men and women empl-oyees. Chairman of Tata Sons, Natarajan Chandrasekaran concurred that while TCS, with more than 600,000 employees, has zero tolerance towards harassment, the uptick in cases could be due to more employees expressing themselves.He also denied any conscious disparity in salaries based on gender.“...we are operating in such a global environment.
We are also operating with...six lakh-plus professionals and the company constantly is enforcing and encouraging a culture of openness. We always want people to express themselves and, in the process, if there is harassment, people should raise and when they raise, the number is likely to go up," he said in an annual general meeting on Friday.Also Read: Tata Group working on 100 Gen AI projects: ChandrasekaranHe was responding to a shareholder’s question on the rise in POSH cases.The total number of complaints reported under Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibit-ion and Redressal) Act, 2013 (POSH) in FY2023-24 were 110 vs 49 in FY2022-23.
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