Tata Consultancy Companies (TCS), India’s largest IT companies agency, is underneath 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 issues concerning the firm’s reliance on H-1B visa staff whereas shedding American employees.
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 12 months 2025, TCS acquired approval to rent 5,505 H-1B staff, making it the second-largest employer of latest H-1B visa recipients within the US.
Enterprise Immediately was unable to confirm the report independently.
“On the similar time you could have been shedding American staff, you could have been submitting H-1B visa petitions for hundreds of overseas staff,” the letter acknowledged.
The Senators questioned the agency’s rationale for searching for overseas tech staff when, in response to them, a whole lot of hundreds of American tech professionals stay unemployed. “With the entire homegrown American expertise relegated to the sidelines, we discover it exhausting to consider 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 corporations, and if H-1B hires obtain equal pay and advantages as their American counterparts. In addition they requested whether or not TCS conceals H-1B job postings individually from normal 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 lately signed a proclamation to lift the H-1B visa price to $100,000 beginning in FY27 — up from the present $2,000 to $5,000 vary. Monetary analysts count on the steep hike might drive IT corporations to both ramp up offshore operations or increase native hiring.
(With inputs from PTI)
