According to Livemint, India’s largest IT services company, TCS has named a new head for hiring amid the 100-Crore Bribe-for-Jobs Scam probe.
However, TCS said that media reports of an alleged recruitment scam were “Incorrect” in the exchange filing on Friday, June 23, 2203. The company found it a breach of code by certain employees and vendors in subcontractor hiring.
The company also said in the exchange filing, “Recruitment activities in TCS are not handled by Resource Management Group (RMG) as alleged, therefore the reference to the alleged scam in the recruitment process is incorrect,”
“RMG is responsible for allocation of available resources to various projects and in case of any shortfall, fill such requirements through contractors.” the IT giant added.
A veteran of 30 years, Sivakumar Viswanathan will be the new head of the Resource Management Group (RMG). After a whistleblower blew the lid on unethical practices at the hiring of contract workers the former global head of the recruitment arm E.S. Chakravarthy has been sent on leave.
Resource Management Group oversees the hiring of contract workers and internally deploys people to projects. The company has sacked 15 people from the RMG divisions in the US, Canada, and India’s Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
“TCS has started auditing all contract staffing vendors working with the company,” said an industry executive aware of the development.
“All their procurement and RMG teams across geographies have been asked to file reports of every hire over the last 2-3 years and mention which division and vendor have sourced them and at what price.”
RMG at TCS plays a vital role as the division deploys 1,400 engineers to a project every day, averaging a placement a minute.
The company’s headcount as of March 31, 2023, stood at 6,14,795. In the previous quarter, TCS in Q3FY23 posted a decline of 2,197 people in its employee base, and TCS headcount stood at 613,974 as on December 31, 2022.
