“Exploitative” IT company has been delaying the training of 2,000 new employees for years

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Indian IT company Infosys has been accused of “exploitative practices” for allegedly sending job offers to thousands of engineering graduates but still failing to hire any of them after up to two years. Graduates were reportedly told they had to undergo repeated unpaid training courses to continue working at Infosys.

Last week, the Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES), an Indian advocacy group for IT workers, sent a letter [PDF]shared by The Register, addressed to Mansukh Mandaviya, India's minister for labour and employment, urging the Indian government to intervene “to prevent the exploitation of young IT graduates by Infosys.” The letter, signed by NITES president Harpreet Singh Saluja, said NITES had received “several” complaints from young engineering graduates “who were subjected to unprofessional and exploitative practices” by Infosys after being hired as systems engineers and digital specialty engineers.

According to NITES, Infosys had already sent offer letters to these individuals on April 22, 2022, after the company participated in a college recruitment drive from 2022 to 2023 but never onboarded the graduates. NITES had earlier stated that “over 2,000 recruits” were affected.