After the news of the alleged onboarding delay of 600 Tata Consulting Services (TCS) employees captured the headlines, the Ministry of Labour asked the company to meet the Chief Labour Commissioner (CLC) in New Delhi on August 1, 2025. The company’s leadership did not attend the meeting but did send an email to explain their reasoning.
In the email, TCS assured the ministry that it is determined to honour the job offers that it has extended, despite the delays in onboarding due to global market challenges. The company cited deferred client projects as the reason behind the delay in the induction of accepted employees.
The Ministry of Labour summoned TCS following the complaint filed by the Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES). A representative of the union was also a part of the meeting with CLC, which TCS did not attend. While TCS acknowledged the onboarding concerns in its email, it apparently also dismissed the union’s role, questioning its standing to intervene in the matter and noting that the complainant had “not established its locus stand.”
NITES has demanded that TCS provide a definitive onboarding timeline, compensation for affected candidates, mental health support, and assistance for those who have already relocated. TCS remains firm in its stance that it will indeed honor its offers, despite the delay in induction.