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TCS bans six employees, six staffing firms in hiring scam
TCS has taken action against six employees after finding them guilty of accepting favours from certain staffing firms in the appointment of contractual workers, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said on Thursday. The largest IT services exporter is investigating the role of three more of its employees, Chandrasekaran said while speaking at the TCS annual general meeting here. "We have banned six employees and also six companies," he said in response to questions from shareholders. He said the company received two separate whistleblower complaints -- one pertaining to appointment of business associates or contractual workers in the US, and one in India, in late February and March, after which it investigated the allegations. Chandrasekaran said he cannot quantify the favours these employees got but the banned employees behaved in such a way that they were favouring certain firms. "The company will look at the whole BA (Business Associate) supplier management process and see what
Domestic tour operators on Thursday welcomed the government's move to defer hike in tax collection at source on overseas tour packages till September 30 calling but reiterated that it should be brought down to 2.5 per cent. In a statement, Indian Association of Tour Operators (IATO) -- the apex body of tour operators in the country with more than 1,700 members -- thanked the government for "giving partial relief of deferring Tax Collection at Source (TCS) on the overseas tour packages till September 30, 2023, and also for withdrawing increase of TCS percentage from 5 per cent to 20 per cent on amount up to Rs 7 lakh per annum". "Though we are happy with this rollback, our long-standing demand is that the TCS should be reduced to 2.5 per cent as the main objective of the government is to bring more people into the tax net...," IATO President Rajiv Mehra said. He further said, "...if the government reduces the TCS percentage on overseas tour packages, a higher number of people will .
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TCS is consulting with external auditors to investigate the situation, said a person aware of the development
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Sources say probe will take 45 days to complete; company tells exchanges scam had no financial impact
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TCS has suspended four employees for violating its code of conduct, following a whistleblower complaint received earlier this month, sources said on Friday. The Tata Group company, the largest IT services exporter in the country, has also barred an unspecified number of vendors who provided talent on a contractual basis, they added. In a late evening statement to the exchanges, TCS said it probed the allegations made in the complaint and found out that the charges do not "involve any fraud by or against the company and no financial impact". The statement made after a media report published earlier in the day also clarified that the "reference to alleged scam in recruitment process is incorrect". It said the resource management group (RMG) is entrusted with allocating resources to various projects and fill shortfall through contractors. "The complaint referred to...relates to hiring of such contract resources employed by the contractors," it added. The company also clarified that
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