Tata Consultancy Companies (TCS), India’s largest IT companies agency, is beneath scrutiny from two senior U.S. Senators over its hiring practices. In a letter addressed to CEO Ok Krithivasan, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and rating member Richard Durbin raised considerations concerning the firm’s reliance on H-1B visa staff whereas shedding American workers.
The letter, dated September 24, 2025, highlights that TCS has laid off over 12,000 staff globally — together with practically 60 in its Jacksonville workplace — even because it continues to file hundreds of H-1B visa petitions, as per a PTI report. For fiscal yr 2025, TCS acquired approval to rent 5,505 H-1B staff, making it the second-largest employer of recent H-1B visa recipients within the US.
Enterprise At present was unable to confirm the report independently.
“On the identical time you have got been shedding American staff, you have got been submitting H-1B visa petitions for hundreds of overseas staff,” the letter said.
The Senators questioned the agency’s rationale for searching for overseas tech staff when, in keeping with them, a whole lot of hundreds of American tech professionals stay unemployed. “With all the homegrown American expertise relegated to the sidelines, we discover it exhausting to imagine that TCS can not discover certified American tech staff to fill these positions,” they wrote.
The letter additionally referenced an ongoing Equal Employment Alternative Fee investigation into TCS for allegedly changing older American staff with South Asian H-1B staff, warning that the present hiring technique “is doing itself no favours” throughout this probe.
Grassley and Durbin posed 9 detailed questions, searching for readability on whether or not American staff have been displaced, whether or not TCS outsources hiring to third-party staffing companies, and if H-1B hires obtain equal pay and advantages as their American counterparts. Additionally they requested whether or not TCS conceals H-1B job postings individually from basic listings.
TCS has been requested to reply with knowledge by October 10, 2025.
The scrutiny coincides with a broader regulatory tightening round H-1B visas. President Donald Trump not too long ago signed a proclamation to boost the H-1B visa charge to $100,000 beginning in FY27 — up from the present $2,000 to $5,000 vary. Monetary analysts anticipate the steep hike may drive IT companies to both ramp up offshore operations or increase native hiring.
(With inputs from PTI)
