Immigration lawyer Rahul Reddy warns H-1B workers that their biggest mistake is assuming good performance will protect them from layoffs. He urges them to prepare a Plan B that could include moving to another employer, changing status, starting a... — read more 

HCL Technologies announced its Q2 FY26 results today, showing a clear divergence from the broader IT industry trend of job cuts. While peers such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) trimmed their workforce significantly, HCL Tech continued to expand... — read more 

I was on HCL IBM Cloud Team. The project wasn't going well. IBM was wanting us to support 10 different companies that all wanted different forms of support and all wanted their tickets done differently. On top of this it was very high volume. Often... — read more 

I work as a third-party contractor with HCL, in US. Today, me and my colleague (third party contractor), have been told to be relieved in 30 days. This decision has come from CEO as a cost cutting measure. News is, HCL is releasing all third party... — read more 

This company is constantly buying and cutting us labor how are there not more reports??

Hi folks - this is to those who have already gone. Was the severance purely based on your time at Verizon or was it Verizon plus the time at HCL? If I had to guess they would only include the time at Verizon.

Anyone have the skinny on why HCL is forcing rebadged Verizon employees to submit for other jobs when FMO’d? Rebadged employees were promised Verizon severance as long as they stayed on the Verizon account within the 2 year contract. Now HCL is... — read more 

I hope you’re all doing well! It’s been a little while since I moved on, but I’ve been thinking about the Ascension project and was curious about how things are going for those of you still at HCL.

For those of you who are still standing, how are things going? I've heard about half of the rebadged are gone now?

What is wrong with HCL? Some of us are laid off as of 11/1 and they still haven’t shared our severance numbers, they don’t know if our STI will be paid at 100% or 75%, they don’t know if we can keep/port our phone numbers. They haven’t answered if... — read more 

xerox employees being offloaded to hcl. How long do they have until HCL fires them?

As no real information are shared via HCL HR nor management, I'm asking myself if anyone has more information regarding the next waves. All the silence is creating a lot of rumors and also for the impacted fellows from wave one no information have... — read more 

(2023) The Board ruled that an employer violates Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) by offering a severance agreement to employees that includes confidentiality and non-disparagement terms restricting the exercise of the... — read more 

I am starting a new thread here so we can all stay informed on our severance. I have a copy of the Verizon Severance Document and want to make sure it aligns with what HCL gives us. For example I already have 2 points of concern. When Verizon... — read more 

Pls post guys. And good luck.

Management has informed us to expect a big announcement tomorrow from the HCL FMO (Future Mode of Operation) Team regarding our future. No further details were provided, but expect the worst.

My Manager and I were both told today in advance that we, along with many others, will be getting our 60 day notice on 8/23.

I'm a US-based employee who "gets" to re-badge to HCL Tech soon. Been reading all of the comments and they're not hopeful. Any insight into US worker benefits once we move over?

Just got off a U.K. all hands call with senior management. We were informed that as part of the VZ/HCL FMO, there is a risk of redundancies. I can’t say I’m shocked, as soon as the whole Verizon and HCL “partnership” was announced, I knew this would... — read more 

So here is what I got out of the call (my director also held a meeting to clarify). We are 9 months in and the big re-org is coming. “Centers of Excellence” being opened in India and Philippines to take our jobs. We will be notified in the near... — read more 

Has anyone being part of the Verizon move to HCL experienced short term disability 70% pay while on STD. They actually owe you 100% of pay for this and not 70%.. It's located in your term of employment to equal what Verizon was paying you. Been... — read more 

HCL Lay off 600 employees in entire India on June 5th 2024, all 600 folks got email on 4th June evening to come and meet in-person in office on 5th and they asked to resign voluntarily on the spot. HCL is literally doing unethical work policy they... — read more 

Mar 1 id fri-yay. Anyone else going bye bye?

Hey folks, Just trying to get an idea how many of us are counting the days till the ripcord is pulled. I started my countdown this week. Whoo hoo!

Fact: if you agree to be employed at HCL, please make sure you read your offer letter. They will pay you only 90% of what you ask for; then the other 10% is split into a 5-part bonus system, four 1/4s and one yearly. They will pay you based on 40 hr... — read more 

Not sure if you’ve heard, but Verizon has sold 5000 of us to HCLTech. We are the Network Operations Team that handles Installation and Repair for the Business customers. HCL has agreed to match our salary and benefits if we sign an 1 year offer... — read more 

Do you truly believe the rumor is true that 70% of all former State Farm employees that now work for HCL will be gone the second or third week of March.

Major layoff process initiated, Benched support & maintenance folks will be let go in 4the quarter. Benched folk being categorized as useful /useless and hard labelled for and marked for layoff from 01st Oct 2022. Target atlaest 10000 from testing... — read more 

To hide windfall profits and avoid taxers HCL paid advance pay to employees only collect back in installments. Highly sophisticated scheme of transferring income tax liability onto employee, Employee loses in the form of higher band of incometax... — read more 

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/14/epi_h_1b_visa_hcl_report/

HCL fired all my Ex-Xerox support people that where in the US and Canada. Is there anyone left are are they all offshore? It’s sad what they did to really good people. If you’re on the chopping block, do not believe HCL will look for other... — read more 

Is the Separation Agreement the reason no one comments? You are legally prevented from saying anything on an anonymous site?

but they change you from salary based to hourly based. With zero billable hours, you can be a full-time employee with zero salary...

I heard that the entire Xerox Team was hit with pretty big pay cuts. Is this going to happen for others @ HCL or is it just for the lucky few supporting Xerox! Did Xerox force HCL to do this or are they iust trying to profit from Covid-19?

Xerox, and a number of other companies use HCL to HIDE all their layoffs. Offshoring to people that just aren't cut out for the job. Stockholders probably have no idea, hidden in plain site. Nice to know offshore folks have their hours cut due to... — read more 

It’s HCL’s turn to face a suit for alleged hiring bias in US https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/its-hcls-turn-to-face-a-suit-for-alleged-hiring-bias-in-us/articleshow/68729867.cms?from=mdr

HCL is systematically and slowly following through with the offshoring and reducing full-time the 6000 employees that were part of the expanded strategic partnership with Xerox. C Vijayakumar President & CEO, HCL Technologies had to do damage control... — read more 

Google Cloud has joined forces with India-based IT services powerhouse HCL, which CEO Thomas Kurian says will make it a stronger player in the cloud where it is facing off with Amazon and Microsoft. HCL will set up a new business organization with... — read more 

What's the general layoff practice, and do they give any early notice and some severance?