US Senators pose nine questions to TCS on hiring practices in America H-1B approach

The Week India ^ | 10/3/2025 | Staff

[marcusmaximus]

US Senators have asked India's largest IT firm TCS to furnish details about its hiring practices in the US, whether the company has displaced any Americans with H-1B workers, as well as wage parity between H-1B hires and its local US staff.

In a recent letter to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO K Krithivasan, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and ranking member Richard Durbin noted that the company has announced plans to layoff over 12,000 employees worldwide, including American staff.

TCS laid off nearly five dozen employees in its Jacksonville office alone, according to the letter.

"At the same time you have been laying off American employees, you have been filing H-1B visa petitions for thousands of foreign workers," it said.

The letter cited data from fiscal year 2025, when TCS received approval to hire 5,505 H-1B employees, noting this made the company the second-largest employer of newly-approved H-1B beneficiaries in the US.

"With all of the homegrown American talent relegated to the sidelines, we find it hard to believe that TCS cannot find qualified American tech workers to fill these positions," Senators Grassley and Durbin said the letter dated September 24, 2025.

Emphasising that TCS was already under investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for allegedly firing older American workers in favour of newly hired South-Asian H-1B employees, the letter went on to say that the company "is doing itself no favours by replacing Americans with H-1Bs while this investigation is ongoing".

[econjack]

I just stated what are the facts until 2027. The fact that you don’t like those facts doesn’t change anything.

[Sirius Lee]

Western Civilization is worth defending and preserving. America might not be a good fit for you.

If you want to live in an America-hating, Christ-hating, caste system, low wage country, you can move your ass to India. Don't try to import these pagans here.

[econjack]

Not my goal at all. I never said I wanted this to happen...I don't. I am simply explaining why it happened. To the extent someone understands why it's happening (i.e., cheap labor), they then can fix the problem (i.e., raising the price of a H-1B visa to $100,000, which is exactly what Trump did). However, my understanding is that the increase doesn't go into effect until 2027. Why wait? Do it now.

[grey_whiskers]

CEOs are not noted for their intelligence, but fur their herd instincts.

The problem with offshoring is that the “salary” and “benefits” and “tax” buckets are all nice clean line items on a spreadsheet, but schdedule slippage, demoralization, reworking, customer dissatisfaction, and similar are more vague amorphous things which can easily be blamed on the few remaining onshore employees.

See also Cracker Barrel not learning at first from Bud Light and Dylan Mulvaney, or from Jaguar, until their own customers ripped their face off.

See also Sun Microsytems and Intel.

Once Indians get into management, they only hire other Indians. And the minute you challenge them they both fly into a rage and emit a cloud of squid ink into the water by suddenly stammering in Pigdin English so as to make it impossible to decipher a single sentence, the better to cast your notice their business failings as “ray-ciss”.

To say nothing of likely kickbacks, such as the Wal-Mart VP who was raking in 30,000/day in kickbacks from H1-B related shenanigans.

Troll.