What a surprise, Indian IT consultancy Infosys has been accused of, stringing along new "Hires" by delaying their on-boarding and requiring them to do unpaid pre-training.
This is not a surprise. The founder of the company called for a 70 hour work week, and their (completely illegal) abuse of the H1B process in the United States is perhaps the most extreme of any of the indian "Body Shops."
Indian IT firm Infosys has been accused of being “exploitative” after allegedly sending job offers to thousands of engineering graduates but still not onboarding any of them after as long as two years. The recent graduates have reportedly been told they must do repeated unpaid training in order to remain eligible to work at Infosys.
Last week, the Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES), an Indian advocacy group for IT workers, sent a letter [PDF], shared by The Register, to Mansukh Mandaviya, India’s minister of Labor and Employment. It requested that the Indian government intervene “to prevent exploitation of young IT graduates by Infosys." The letter, signed by NITES president Harpreet Singh Saluja, claimed that NITES received “multiple” complaints from recent engineering graduates “who have been subjected to unprofessional and exploitative practices” from Infosys after being hired for system engineer and digital specialist engineer roles.
According to NITES, Infosys sent these people offer letters as early as April 22, 2022, after engaging in a college recruitment effort from 2022–2023, but never onboarded the graduates. NITES has previously said that “over 2,000 recruits” are affected.
I'm beginning to think that Infosys employees should take a page from certain Indian steel workers, though their specific protest methods, setting fire to senior managers' cars with the managers inside, seems a bit excessive.
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