Infosys Lays Off 700 Freshers, Says They Didn’t Clear Internal Assessment

New Delhi:

IT giant Infosys has laid off nearly 700 freshers from its Mysuru campus, IT employees’ union Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) claimed on Friday. The union claimed that the freshers were being terminated after just a few months of being onboarded to the company.

The terminated freshers are being made to sign confidentiality agreements, NITES said noting that it may be an attempt to suppress the details of the layoffs.

“In a shocking and unethical move, Infosys has begun forcefully laying off around 700 campus recruits who were onboarded just a few months ago,” Harpreet Singh Saluja, NITES president, said in a statement.

NITES alleged that the company also deployed “bouncers and security personnel” during the termination process to intimidate employees.

This was done to ensure that the employees do not “carry mobile phones and are left with no way to document the incident or seek help,” Mr Saluja claimed.