“Your scheduled date of joining the employment of the Company will be October 07,2024. Your location for employment is MYSORE, India,” Infosys talent acquisition team emailed some of the students.
The move comes days after ET reported that about 1,500 students from the April 2022 batch having offer letters seeking clarity on the job prospects after appearing for two rounds of pre-training in July and August.
“I am thrilled to announce that after relentless efforts and a formal complaint by Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES), Infosys has finally issued appointment letters to more than 1,000 (still counting) campus hires today. These young engineers, who have been waiting for nearly two years, now have a confirmed joining date of October 7, 2024. This is a huge win for NITES and all the students who stood strong in the face of uncertainty and delay,” said Harpreet Singh Saluja, president at the IT employee union NITES.
Saluja adds, “We remain vigilant… if Infosys fails to honor this commitment and breaches the joining date, we will not hesitate to organize a protest right in front of the Infosys office.”
Since April 2022, around 2,000 engineering graduates of that year’s batch were delayed onboarding after receiving offer letters from Infosys to join for system engineers (SE) and digital SE roles at Rs 3.2-3.7 lakh annual packages.
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In June this year, the Pune-based union had filed a complaint with the Labour and Employment Ministry against Infosys over the delayed onboarding that left several students to suffer from joblessness and anxieties.“I am unable to digest this. We are very happy that our fight has met the right end and we will finally not remain jobless anymore,” One of the students ET spoke to said.
While some students have moved on to get other jobs, some waited and some failed to get other jobs as Infosys continued to delay the joining dates without any certainty around the onboarding. Most IT majors including Infosys have been struggling to grow revenues due to the subdued demand environment continuing to weigh on the technology services business across the industry impacting job opportunities in India and globally.
Meanwhile, last week, the Bengaluru-headquartered IT giant’s chief executive officer (CEO) Salil Parekh, in an interview to PTI, said, “We changed some dates but beyond that everyone will join Infosys and there is no change in that approach.”
Parekh’s comments came after the complaint by NITES along with the media and public outcry by students against the delayed onboarding.
In August, after the two pre-training rounds Infosys had given joining date of September 2 to only about 115 students, while the rest remained in a state of flux about their job prospects.
