The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) calls Infosys gender discrimination a toxic culture.
Additionally, NITES has also urged IT companies to immediately stop it.
The Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate has recently shared a tweet from the official Twitter handle saying, “Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life.”
“The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime”, the tweet added.
#Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.#ITEmployees #StrongerTogether #JusticeforEmployees pic.twitter.com/X7dDBTOQ5R
— Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (@NITESenate) October 8, 2022
NITES President Harpreet Singh Saluja said, “We strongly condemn the illegal and discriminatory hiring tactics adopted by Infosys.”
“Discrimination against mothers who want to work with IT companies is not limited to Infosys. This type of malpractice is prevailing in the Indian IT sector on a large scale … There is an immediate need for provisions to be implemented to stop this toxic culture,” he added.
Harpreet Singh further said, “This discriminatory actions of the company comes in the wake of the Indian government emphasizing on the flexibility of workplace, time and developing a work-from-home ecosystem, which would increase a lot of opportunities for female workers and would enable them to contribute in nation’s economy.”
This statement came after India’s second-largest IT major, Infosys’ former employee, Jill Prejean a specialist at recruiting hard-to-find executives has taken legal action over biases. She was discriminated against on the grounds of age and sex.
As part of the hiring profile, Jill Prejean had to be part of the meetings to make a better understanding new hiring profile. She allegedly raised her concerns about discriminatory preferences.
Further, Jill Prejean also felt that there were hiring based on discriminatory criteria by the in-house counsel. These concerns have been serious against Infosys. However, the policies at Infosys have always been strong.
