Infosys denies forced layoffs at its Mysuru campus
08 Feb 2025
Infosys on Friday said it has terminated over 300 trainees at its Mysuru campus, and not 400 as reported in the media, after they failed to meet the contractual obligation of passing three internal assessments.
This, the company said, has been the standard practice over the past two decades and, in the present case 337 trainees were terminated as they failed multiple evaluation tests.
The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) had even alleged that Infosys sacked 700 of its campus recruits.
In fact, NITES has moved the labour and corporate ministries, seeking "immediate action" to address the situation.
Infosys said as a practice these trainees are given upto three chances to clear the tests, but these 337 trainees failed all three rounds, making them ineligible for employment.
Infosys also refuted media allegations of deploying bouncers and that some of the trainees, and even a regular employee, were forcefully terminated.
The company has not so far clarified on allegations of altering testing parameters as also the syllabus without informing the trainees.
Infosys, however, claimed that the number of trainees absorbed into regular employment was nearly double the number of those terminated from training.
The trainees were onboarded in October 2024, after a long two-and-a-half-year wait, amidst concerns of an economic slowdown that forced companied to halt IT spending.
