About 50 Cognizant employees move labour court following ‘forceful resignation’
06/12/2017
PUNE: About 50 employees some of them have been on the job for 10 years of Cognizant's Hinjawadi campus have approached the labour commissioner, who felt they have been subject to "forceful resignation" after the IT giant asked them to migrate to Quess, claiming they had failed to perform.
Cognizant has a vendor relationship with Bengaluru-headquartered Quess, a business service provider. However, the "sacked" employees of Cognizant were given only a fixed term of four months with Quess, implying that they might be jobless after that. Shrinivasan (name changed) was working with Cognizant in its Hinjawadi campus for last 10 years as a senior manager. In October, he was called by its HR authorities and told that he has to resign and move to Quess on contract. "The HR called me, saying that they wanted to discuss some project. Soon after entering the room, I was told that I had to resign with immediate effect. I obviously refused. Then they told me that I had two options either resign here and switch to Quess else my service will be terminated with immediate effect with a bad review on the relieving letter. I was left with no choice. I chose to resign but the new contract is just for four months. We don't know what will happen after that," he said. He is not the only employee who was asked to quit, as at least 50 professionals of Cognizant's Hinjawadi campus had to resign. Incidentally, this is not first such layoff involving Cognizant, the New Jersey-based global IT services company. Pune Mirror has reported in the recent past that Forum for IT Employees (FITE) had moved labour commissioner multiple times against Cognizant, Tech Mahindra, Wipro and Vodafone with 20 cases being filed in May-June ('Battling layoffs, IT employees turn to labour commissioner', June 5).
Later, several lawyers also helped the IT employees fight the legal battle. However, things turned ugly again in the last couple of months with at least 10,000 staff being laid off among Cognizant's over two lakh workforce across the world.
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