Fresh allegations surfaced against Tata Consultancy Services this week amid growing buzz about unfair employment practices. Multiple employees claim they were forced to resign while others accused the company of using internal exams to make ‘arbitrary’ job decisions rather than assess skills. The latest accusations — highlighted on social media by the Forum for IT Employees in Maharashtra — recounted the plight of a Pune woman who had faced pay cuts and extreme work load before having her job terminated despite strong performance.
“One woman employee — already denied alimony because she had a TCS job — has now been terminated, leaving her with no income and no support…No transparency. Employees are not shown their exam papers or results. When an exam decides someone’s livelihood, employees have the right to see where they went wrong. This system is being used to push people out, not evaluate skills,” the IT Forum alleged in an X post.
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‘Asked to take AI test, fired with one day notice’
The social media handle also reiterated its demand for TCS to reveal the exam papers and scores of ousted employees — calling for an end to “forced resignations disguised as performance measures”. It also attached a WhatsApp chat screenshot outlining details presumably shared by the ousted employee. Financial Express could not independently verify the claims.
“I have recently gone through an extremely challenging and unfair situation. After my divorce, I received no alimony because I was gainfully employed at TCS Pune. Tragically, TCS forced me to resign with just one day’s notice. For the last six months, despite being a clear overachiever-consistently handling 200 plus cases per day when the ‘good performance’ target was only 135 cases per day, maintaining zero errors, and meeting all case-handling timelines perfectly,” the post shared on X narrated.
The unnamed woman said she was “deliberately awarded D-band ratings” that led to multiple salary reductions. The company also mandated an AI course for the ousted employee during her final two months with the company. She added that the company had simply claimed she failed the test without providing details — using it as the reason to terminate her job.
“TCS mandated an Al course for me while deliberately piling on extra workload and providing no dedicated training time or schedule. When the test was conducted, I was simply told I had failed-no score details, feedback, or review process was shared. Using this single “failure” as the reason, TCS terminated my employment effective the very next day. Even my own manager strongly opposed this decision and fought with HR, repeatedly highlighting my exceptional performance with no unplanned leaves, but unfortunately HR did not relent,” she added.
Barrage of accusations
The IT Forum has highlighted multiple cases in recent weeks to underscore its accusations of unfair work practices. According to FITE, a growing number of TCS workers are being pressured to leave following internal assessments with opaque evaluation methods.