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U.S. Suspends Infosys, TCS, Wipro, HCL; TCS Plans 15,000 U.S. Jobs
TCS said its PERM applications were in single digits over the past two years and it will add 15,000 US employees over five years.
- On Friday, Tata Consultancy Services stated that the US government's suspension of the Permanent Labour Certification program would not materially affect its workforce strategy or client engagements.
- US Vice President JD Vance and Labour Secretary Keith Sonderling announced on Thursday that eight IT companies, including TCS, Infosys, and Microsoft, were suspended from the PERM program amid a broader crackdown on skilled-worker immigration.
- Officials alleged the programs contributed to hundreds of thousands of American job losses, yet TCS maintained its PERM applications remained in single digits over the past two years.
- Reiterating plans to hire 15,000 employees in the US over five years, the company emphasized its strategy centers on local recruitment and campus hiring rather than the PERM route.
- Vice President Vance separately announced an investigation into the J-1 visa program for research scholars used by nine universities, including Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, extending administration scrutiny beyond technology firms.
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BizTocTata says its workforce strategy won't be affected by PERM suspensions and is hiring 15,000 more workers
TCS says it will still hire 15,000 people in the US despite its suspension from a federal program used to sponsor foreign workers for green cards.
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US Suspends TCS From Green Card Programme, But The IT Giant Has A Clear Message
<p>Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has played down the potential operational impact of the US government's latest immigration action, saying its plans to recruit locally and serve customers in the country remain unchanged. The company said it had filed only a single-digit number of applications under the US green card programme over the past two years, limiting the immediate significance of the suspension for its workforce strategy.</p> <p>The c…
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