High-profile Udhampur LS seat records around 70 pc polling
The Udhampur constituency sprawls from the plains of Kathua touching Punjab to the mountainous regions of Kishtwar and Doda.
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NEW DELHI, 4 JUNE: Tata Consultancy Services, the country’s largest software company, may sack as many as 290 employees at its Finland office, a move that the workers say is an attempt to shift jobs to India.
TCS, which has a registered office in Helsinki and has an employee strength of about 800 in Finland, is currently in negotiation with the employee representatives (ERs) over the move to cut jobs. The Union of Professional Engineers in Finland (UIL) claimed that the jobs at stake were about 412, a figure which TCS said was inaccurate.
“If I remember…412, I believe is the correct number,” UIL director (collective bargaining) Mr Ismo Kokko said when asked about the number of jobs at stake in TCS.
When contacted, a TCS spokesperson said: “The maximum number of roles affected is 290 and not the numbers you have mentioned, which are completely inaccurate.”
Lay-offs may be less than even 290, some sources privy to TCS management thinking said.
In April this year, more than 160 employees at the Finland offices of TCS staged a walkout protesting against job cuts. These employees were outsourced by Nokia to TCS in March. The employees are based in Espoo, Salo, Tampere and Oulu.
“On 25 April, there was a spontaneous walk-out from all TCS offices located in Nokia premises in Finland. People felt angry and betrayed over the fact that it only took TCS seven weeks to show their true colours. Many people felt that Nokia simply outsourced its lay-offs and dirty work to TCS,” sources closely following the developments revealed.
Nokia made the announcement related to the outsourcing of employees in January and the total number of Nokia employees to be transferred was 820 of which about 560 were to go to TCS and 230 to HCL, Mr Kokko said.
Separately, Nokia also cut jobs at its IT centre by up to 300 employees.
Mr Kokko said negotiations with employee representatives (ERs) are currently going on and will conclude soon, which was also confirmed by sources, who wished not to be quoted.
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