Cognizant seeks two weeks to reply to employees' complaints on mass layoffs

Cognizant, like other IT majors, has been pruning its workforce

Cognizant Technology Solutions' (CTS') management representatives have sought two weeks time from the Telangana government's joint commissioner of labour (JCL) to get back with a comprehensive reply on the allegations about forced resignations at their campuses being levelled by a group of employees.

JCL R Chandrasekharam on Thursday held a joint meeting with the management and employees of CTS on a representation given by eight employees on May 8 seeking the departments' intervention over what they termed as illegal layoffs.

"I have tried to understand the problem by speaking to both the parties. The management has requested two weeks time