Latest is 1800 US employees being laid off with 2 weeks severance. Big change from the company that doesn’t pay, but in theory will not lay you off. If you are not allocated right now, or might be unallocated soon, might be a good idea to look for something somewhere else. Goal is for new hires to be offshore.
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@17ioh they did similar to me too in July 2025.
I learned a lot the WARN Act in Dec 2025 on Reddit (boomer parents never taught me). Thats when I saw that I was given NO WARNING!
Like how is this acceptable!
They also NEVER hired me in appropriate fit and kept changing the roles blindsidedly throughout my tenure!
I never saw ‘Level 2’ and was a lateral hot potato object.
I was grateful to be hired there as a guy previously laid off (before this layoff incident) but I saw no future in ‘rising’ in this company!
Oh well…………….i know I’m NOT alone!
I am deeply saddened and shocked by the decision from TCS regarding my termination after staying in TCS for 3.5 years. I did not expect such an outcome, especially without any prior notice or warning for what I believe was a minor issue.
Regarding the Proprietary Information, Confidentiality, and Non-Solicitation agreement mentioned in the termination email, I want to clarify that I have not violated any of these policies. The only instance was an inadvertent mention of a client name in a press article, which I immediately corrected by taking down the article as soon as I was informed. I sincerely regret any oversight, but terminating my employment without notice or severance for such an issue feels extremely harsh.
This sudden decision has placed me in a very difficult situation. As an H1B visa holder, I now have only 60 days to secure new employment, or I will be forced to leave the United States. This not only affects me but also disrupts my family’s stability, including my children’s education
i was layoff in dec. I got call from HR and terminate my job.
very worst HR.
Never expect from TCS
I was released from TCS by a phone call, same day, no notice, and only parked for 2 weeks, Jan 4th, 2023. I was given no warning or notice after completing a very successful 1.5 year project. I have received zero written notice making filing unemployment impossible. Message me if anyone files a class action. My boss was released by phone last Friday. This is not a company that believes in loyalty to its employees
I keep hearing a lot of people say phone call only, no written notice, no access to emails. This is super shady. Did they pay you severance and all your vacation days? someone on here said their vacation days didnt seem to add up but they also didnt get a detailed breakdown on everything that was paid out
I was released from TCS by a phone call, same day, no notice, and only parked for 2 weeks, Jan 4th, 2023. I was given no warning or notice after completing a very successful 1.5 year project. I have received zero written notice making filing unemployment impossible. Message me if anyone files a class action. My boss was released by phone last Friday. This is not a company that believes in loyalty to its employees
TCS is a train wreck and quite honestly a pyramid scheme for most of its employees. The way they have treated people that have sacrificed for them is a disgrace. I hope they get taken to cleaners with all of these lawsuits.
If F500 client CEO/CIOs knew 10% of the nonsense that goes on at TCS internally they wouldn’t go anywhere near them. They are an unethical dumpster fire and once the price of labor in India goes up they will cease to be relevant…. They have no other competitive advantage.
R. Tata is rolling over in his grave.
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did you get severance and were you paid out all your vacation days to your knowledge?
I am one of 1800, I was in project , but manager did not assign me SWON , so HR Terminated my job on Dec 8th. It happend on the spot , on phone call, no warning. Luckily I got one contract job.
DBG: please keep us updated in regards to you getting all your vacation days and if they follow up about anything else. Seems so unprofessional if you can't get ahold of them.
And one other note. Since there appears to be a number of policy breaks, that may or may not be law, I have heard that the courts are not favorable toward employers that break their own policies.
@anonymous Post ID: @17aqo+1p43uHdX.
There are definitely a few issues. First the cut me off from all systems and email within 3 mins of my call. This makes it so I can’t review Ultimatix and have not received a written breakdown or anything else. HR told me 3 things about pay. 1. I would be paid as normal through the following week, 2. I would receive a 2 weeks severance and 3. I would get 7.5 days of vacation. I am not sure how that was calculated since I took no vacation, only a couple of sick days. I have asked for this data.
Next I have not received anything from TCS in 10 days and that’s a bit curious. Though a layoff letter may not be required, I have never seen a professional organization not send a letter to, at least protect themselves. Overall, it’s weak at best and makes me wonder how they are really going their accounting practices? Are they cooking the books? I have ask asked for a call, that has not been received to break things down and offer me proof. This has not been received either.
There are several things to note and those involved in mass layoffs, at least this year, do have rights.
- The Warn Act appears to be non-compliant and therefore we didn’t get any notice whatsoever. This now requires a 60 day pay out and $500 fine per day, per person but the US Government.
- Discrimination - I reported an incident in 2022 of discrimination, it was followed up upon but I heard no more after my statement. They swept it aside I’m sure. Also, since I was hired into a project with no JD or limited JD that was inaccurate, causing me to be hired instead of a Data Analytics person, is also considered under discrimination and therefore wrongful release. This one is very concerning for many reasons.
- I am covered by the Older workers benefit act and would therefore like to one the list, ages, nationalities, etc of those laid off. I bet there are no HB-1’s unless they are ooor performers.
I will meet with an attorney this week since he has read my notes here and believes there is is very strong case for a civil suit and class action that he would like to pursue on a contingency basis. If he’s interested in contingency, he must believe there is something here because his firm is very well known.
To DBG: Thank you for your extremely detailed post. I'm sorry the company treated you this poorly.. it's clear they don't care and it's honestly not the first I've heard of a situation similar to yours. Projects lined up yet for some reason still getting laid off. Doesn't make sense, if you're someone who can be billable, why would they want to lay you off? Wishing you the best! As for the "severance", do you have access to ultimatix still to check the paycheck breakout? Does the value add up to your usual paycheck + vacation + extra i assume for severence? I've heard some say they get 2 weeks severance while some people say there isn't any.
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so in response to DBG. A little confused, you were assigned one project in May but wasnt billable. You were then assigned a second project later but not really because you had to go back to the first one even though it wasnt really possible and then you finally got released? So what period were you actually on the bench?
DBG response.
Sorry if this was a bit unclear but I was not looking to write a book.
To clarify, I was placed on a new project at the end of May. I found out it was actually not a project at all, since it had not WON # (charge code). 1/2 through June, when I finally got my company laptop from the company I was to work for I was told that the Statement of work (SoW) had not been signed but not to worry about it since we were assured the contract and the client wanted us to begin after 7/4/23.
I was then placed, finally, on a Won but it was non-billable, meaning the company wasn’t making any money from my efforts. To speed things along I was asked to complete the SoW and scope of work. I did so, provided it to the engagement lead, along with the scope of work embedded. He approved, sent to our legal team for endorsement and quickly turned it around to give the client before 6/30/23. Then we waited. By the end of week 2 in July the lead got impatient and stated be would be following up the SoW signing, allowing us to get a billable code and get to work. Keep in mind. That entire time I was learning what we were to do and it was pretty straight forward but needed to be shown our work effort and the tech we were implementing. So I didn’t sit around, I worked! What we call pre-work and planning. Then on the 17th of July, myself and I got a roll off letter, no warning or anything. I went back on the bench.
I quickly was exposed to a few new clients and set evaluations to get on the next project. I interviewed with 4 and got offers on 3. For the fist offer the SDM told me and our resource management group (RMG) to continue to follow through with the other evaluations because the client had not given their final approval yet. I did and after the 3rd offer I took the one I liked and fit me best. I told RMG, but though they wanted me to to keep doing evaluations they denied me and told me I had to take the fist offer. The thing was the client hadn’t provided their approval and there was again no WON. I filed a grievance with HR and they did noting at all to help. Again, you are not to be assigned to a “project” without a WON assigned or one coming in short order. So again I waited. In my tech and got the WON finally after 2 weeks when my tech was delivered again. However, the tech was messed up and imaged with the information of the client that I had actually wanted. That role had been filled so I spent the next 3 days working with our IT in India to image my laptop properly.
When that was done, the very next day the Manager for the client and my primary stakeholder went on vacation. Nobody knew about this from TCS, and I contacted the SDM to find out what was next (I had a plan). We discussed the issue, he fired off an email to find out what was going on and received agreement on what I had proposed as a plan while the client manager was gone. Keep in mind, this is a huge client, and this “manager” had no direct reports, other than me. He was gone until the Wednesday after Labor Day or for about 8 business days. I told the SDM I would schedule a meeting for a day or so after his return, and did so during our initial meeting when the manager left on vacation.
When the manager returned, we had our meeting; the manager, SDM, and myself. We went over what I had done when he was away and he seemed pleased. He then scheduled a 1 hour onboarding training for he and I, every other day, with 4 times recorded in our calendars. He missed the 1st meeting, made the 2nd and missed the other 2. At this point I was pretty frustrated, as was the SDM. I had also found out that I needed to learn a pretty extravagant spreadsheet that had headers of acronyms with no explanation. It took 3 days to gain access, and I spent a full dsy tracking down someone that had an acronym list. This was ridiculous! I asked for training on the spreadsheet, since all regular employees had received a 2 week training but all I wanted was to know what they wanted me to do with it, or what reports they wanted me to pull, and provide me the paths so I could write them down and begin making some headway
The end of Sept came and went and we were to do our monthly review with tbe manager we were assigned, our SDM and a 3rd party to help with anything that would be needed. We will put it this way, everything was needed and I was not getting the training I needed to do my job. At worse it was 16 hours of training and I was allowing it to be broken up so the manager or others assigned could do their “day jobs”. The Manager went on the defensive at first then he flipped and went ont he offensive. We was out of control and obviously had no management skills at all. He had also promised to train or have others train me on the critical tasks I was to complete. None of that took place and we later had a meeting with his boss’ boss and she stated the job description was completely wrong. She set about redoing it and it ended up being a Data Analytics or data science job. Not anything I was trained on ever. She asked if I was interested and I told her and the group I would do it as long as I was properly trained. She and the manager assured me of it and thanked me repeatedly. I had one training session for 1/2 hour that the manager set up and then the next 2 days he didn’t show up again. I wa then told by the SDM that he didn’t want to train and they wanted to retain me in a different role. So I waited, keeping my head down as I was told, and 2 days later reached out tot eh SDM. He had no news and I could hear in his voice he was not happy. Again “the customer behaved badly” and I was sent another email saying I was being rolled off but that it was due to the client hiring for the wrong role. Remember, I had wanted a completely different role and client that knew what they wanted and they also wanted me. But that role was gone. Back on the bench I went and no 10 days of WON number reporting again. This was 11/3 and and was off 11/4 on a Saturday. So I raised another grievance about the 10 day WON policy and the fact that we were now in the budgeting time of the year and the holiday time of the year. This was not good. Then, unbeknownst to me TCS had secretly announced the above mass layoff, told nobody and didn’t give a 60 day warn letter or notice that they are required to by federal law. I had a lot of projects that wanted me but hiring was on hold for them until after tbe 1st of the year. Oh boy did I try hard to get on another project but it was either budgeting time causing holds, people on vacation causing holds or delays in other projects until after the 1st of the year.
In the 15th, late in the afternoon, without warning I was called by HR and was laid off. Today I got my final pay out but don’t know if it’s right because I have no breakdown whatsoever. It has been tbe worst Hr moment of my life! What a mess.
So I have
- Policy not being followed
- No Warn letter (federal issue)
- Negligence on the part of 2 clients snd TCS so I should not have been let go per the law
- No documentation about anything to know what I was to be paid, if it was right, or anything else the law requires.
What a mess and this should become a class action suit and I likely will hire a private attorney that is very excited about this case.
TCS played with my career and now others as well and we need to band together for at least our 60 days of pay and more. These are illegal acts. Yes are in an at will state but Warn and negligence by TCS trumps it. How incredibly crazy is this.
Thanks DBG.
what is LSEG and why is this significant?
LSEG is London Stock Exchange Group. TCS had separate contracts with both heritage LSEG and heritage Refinitiv prior to LSEG acquiring Refinitiv in 2020. Now combined, LSEG are a major TCS client. It was rumored that LSEG might terminate their contract with TCS at the end of 2023, but that has been so far unconfirmed. And with only two weeks remaining in 2023, rather unlikely.
so in response to DBG. A little confused, you were assigned one project in May but wasnt billable. You were then assigned a second project later but not really because you had to go back to the first one even though it wasnt really possible and then you finally got released? So what period were you actually on the bench?
how long were you guys with TCS? 2 week severence is so little..
I'm one of those who got laid off. not sure how to team up and file a lawsuit. Looks like more than 50 employees are affected and clear breach of WARN act. Let's team up and get our jobs back.
I was on the bench since 11/4. (Saturday) and my call came 12/15. I have been interviewing with clients and have a few that want me after the 1st of the year. Of course they are not going to bring you on a project with 2-3 weeks left in the year because that would be a charge the client would dispute because many take at least part of the last 2 weeks of the year off. Also, one of these projects is a huge SAP engagement, I spoke to the partner on 11/14, he wants me, but asked me to call him after the 1st of the year so they could have the positions more defined and the SOW signed. He wants the WON, as he should, prior to looking people down.
So without Thanksgiving week, which was a waste of time, I was in the bench for 5 weeks. In addition, policy says you are to be allowed 10 days on the project or unbillable code when rolled off I got zero days, and no notice whatsoever until the a couple days before being rolled off. This didn’t even give me time to communicate with RMG or update my CV. On top of that, prior to being rolled off, I was told the week before that I was going to be retained and moved to a different role. That didn’t happen either. I have a letter to this effect from the DSM that rolled me off. He also stated that the roll off was not my fault at all, it was the client’s because they hired to the wrong job description. This is just bad due diligence. When HR called me, the HR director in Dallas had no empathy, provided me with 2 weeks severance, my left over vacation. And that’s it! This is not only this worst HR, this is just bad business, a black eye on the company, and they ARE against the Warn act. All they need is to not announce the mass layoff to all employees in jeopardy and they didn’t. In that case the lawyer I spoke to states that this is a great lawsuit or class action suit but that we are due 60 days severance due to these violations. I didn’t even know about this article until 12/15/23. So I get 2 hours notice for a mass layoff? No way! That’s illegal. I am going to have a letter written but I believe all laid off need to start a class action suit here, and if those chose a personal law suit as well. For a decent attorney this is easy. They violated WARN!
Hello, I too was just laid off yesterday 12/15/23. Long back story, but I was placed on 2 projects in the past 6 months. The first was not a project at all since it had no signed Statement of Work (SOW), that RMG didn’t make we aware of, and therefore no WON (project charge code). Instead I received a non-billable code. I was told that we hadn’t even completed the SOW, and therefore there was no billable WON yet. If I had know it this in May, I would never have accepted joining the project since I have been told that an employee can’t be assigned to a “project” unless a WON exists. Therefore this was bad work but the client team and RMG combined.
The 2nd project I was assigned, took place in a few days of going back on the bench but they didn’t have client approval yet. The project team asked me to continue customer evaluations (short interviews) until they got the approval or I was placed on another project. I did as both they and RMG asked. During that process I was offered 2 more projects, choosing one and RMG stated that “I had to take the first project, that still didn’t have a WON, because that team had blocked me for the next 12 months.” I was very upset because the initial project wasn’t ready and I had a feeling there would be issues. I told this to RMG and to the project I wanted. The project I wanted agreed and was upset. However, RMG again stated I had to go to the one that “blocked”, which makes no sense because you supposedly can’t be assigned unless there was a WON and the employee, me, accepted the role. Long story short, a little over 2 months later I was placed back on the bench since the client hired to the wrong job description. This was now November of 2023, and everyone knows that the industry slows during the end of the year for the holidays and year end budgeting because many companies are both on a fiscal and calendar year. Finally, though I had interest by many projects to join after 1/1/24 they could not commit since they were waiting for the budgeting process to complete (client approval), and today I find myself laid off without any heads up whatsoever!
in reply: I am one of those laid off recently. Only 2 weeks severance, for 10+ years of service. No warning given. No empathy whatsoever. Very minimal communication, and the worst HR ever.
were you on the bench? if so, how long were you on the bench for?
Is this related to their contract ending with Transamerica? They had many US employees working on that contract. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/indias-tcs-transamerica-agree-end-administration-agreement-2023-06-16/
I am one of those laid off recently. Only 2 weeks severance, for 10+ years of service. No warning given. No empathy whatsoever. Very minimal communication, and the worst HR ever.
Town Hall meeting scheduled for LSEG U.S employees ..............
what is LSEG and why is this significant?
Town Hall meeting scheduled for LSEG U.S employees ..............
when is the layoff happening?
How many of them are on work visas?
They wont leave you on the bench indefinitely, staff are a cost and outside of india very expensive, options are limited , less so if you are home based.