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Capgemini tweaks its leave policy in India amid coronavirus lockdown

Forum for IT Employees (FITE), a self-proclaimed union for IT employees, has alleged that the company has taken such steps in order to "compensate for business loss owing to the nationwide lockdown".

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Responding to a query by Business Standard, Capgemini India, however, said the company had tweaked leave accumulation only up to Q2 (FY21) end, and only as an interim measure.

Gireesh Babu

2 min read Last Updated : Apr 07 2020 | 1:08 AM IST

French IT services and consulting firm Capgemini has tweaked its leave policy in India temporarily apart from deferring increments and promotions of senior-level employees by one quarter.

While the company did not specify the reason behind such steps, the Forum for IT Employees (FITE), a self-proclaimed union for IT employees, has alleged that the company has taken such steps in order to “compensate for business loss owing to the nationwide lockdown”.

“Capgemini has reset all earned leaves of the employees to 15 to compensate for business loss,” the Maharashtra unit of FITE has alleged on Twitter. “On one end,

Topics : Coronavirus Capgemini IT companies IT industry layoffs

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