Tech Mahindra gets HC notice for illegal layoffs amid HR audio clip fiasco

Tech Mahindra faces allegations of large-scale, illegal retrenchment of its employees in Hyderabad

Tech Mahindra is in the news again, this time over notices issued by the Hyderabad High Court to the state of Telangana, the state's labour department, and the information technology (IT) major directing them to respond to the alleged unlawful retrenchments of software engineers employed by the firm. The development was reported by the Times of India on Tuesday. 

The legal notice comes in the back drop of the recent controversy at the IT major over a taped conversation between its human resource  (HR) management staff and an employee who was handed the pink slip. 

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