Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd has appointed a new head to administer the hiring of temporary workers amid an ongoing internal investigation into the bribes-for-jobs scandal. Last week, the Tata Group company sacked at least 15 executives and blacklisted eight staffing firms after reports of...
Rajasthan High Court in Shashi Bala Meena vs. Punjab National Bank through its Managing Director-Cum-Chief Executive Officer &Ors. (S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 7612/2015) held that imposing punishment of compulsory retirement on the employee who wilfully remain absent without leave after...
Kerala High Court in State of Kerala &Ors. vs. Seena M. (OP (KAT) No. 95 of 2023) held that excess payment that was carelessly or negligently granted to an employee by an employer cannot be recovered, particularly when the employee had no knowledge that the amount that was paid was more than...
Allahabad High Court in Kul Bhushan Mishra vs. State of UP (Writ- A No.- 10209 of 2023) while examining the validity of the employer’s transfer policy wherein employer has imposed certain restrictions and conditions for the employees requesting for transfer held that the employee cannot claim...
Calcutta High Court in Kaushik Ghosh & Ors. vs. The State of West Bengal &Ors. (MAT 163 of 2021), on June 21, 2023, although upheld the view taken by the lower court wherein it was held that appointment of temporary workers cannot be regularized unless they are appointed in accordance with...
(PTI): The Coal Ministry has said it approved a wage revision agreement that was reached with trade unions for non-executive employees of Coal India Limited. The agreement provides for a 19 per cent of minimum guaranteed benefit from July 1, 2021, on emoluments – basic, Variable Dearness Allowance...
Anand Amrit Raj has joined Best Group as Chief Human Resource Officer of the group. Prior to this appointment, Anand was associated with Okaya Electric Vehicles as Vice President- HR for more than two years. A seasoned HR Leader with more than 22 years of experience in driving HR Excellence...
(IANS)- The reported over ‘Rs 100 crore’ bribe for jobs scam uncovered in the Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) not only impacts its reputation, it would also have an Indian IT industry wide impact and some cleanup has to happen, said experts. The TCS bribe for jobs scandal would also...
he Bombay High Court has allowed the Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare (BOCW) Cess refund on the supply portion of the contract. The bench of Justice G.S. Patel and Justice Neela Gokhale has observed that a contractor who enters into a pure Supply Contract is statutorily exempt from...
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Bribes-For-Jobs Scam; TCS sacks recruitment executives, blacklists staffing firms but refutes fraud in recruitment
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Limited, one of the biggest IT companies in India, has been hit by a bribes-for-jobs scandal. A few senior executives responsible for hiring critical personnel at the company were accepting bribes from the staffing firms for giving jobs to their candidates, for years...
