印度外包商塔塔咨询服务公司已同意支付3000万$,以委派在美国从印度的工作员工解决了集体诉讼。
这起诉讼是允许集体诉讼地位,去年在美国加州法院的两名雇员,谁是非美国公民后,抱怨说,该公司在他们的工资进行未经授权的扣除。
[也:外包接触下降19%]
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California certified in April a national class defined as "all non-U.S. citizens who were employed by Tata in the United States at any time from February 14, 2002, through June 30, 2005, and who were deputed to the United States after January 1, 2002." The court also certified a similar class for Tata employees in California during the period.
该和解协议已经协商代表约12800班的成员谁将会收到结算金额的份额。如果所有的类成员参加,各种扣除,包括律师费和诉讼费,以及理赔管理费用后每个员工的平均复苏将是大约$ 1,600个,根据法庭记录。
印度外包商发送大量在印度招募在美国的客户项目工作的员工,可能导致签证的滥用及剥削工人的指控。
The two former employees alleged seven years ago in a complaint against TCS and parent company Tata Sons, that the employer breached the standard employment contract for its employees by forcing all employees who were not U.S. citizens to sign over their federal and state tax refunds to Tata, and by deducting their Indian salary from their compensation. TCS claimed it was actually paying these employees their Indian salary in India, so their compensation remained unchanged.
TCS说,它认为它总是适当行动,尽管在案件的指控。“该公司已经承认没有过错,没有已被法院认定,它同意解决这个问题,以消除任何持续的分心其联系人和管理,”它在一份电子邮件声明中说,周三。
该提议的和解方案必须由法院批准。
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