<p>Bengaluru: IT giant <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/infosys">Infosys </a>has offered to re-train around 30-40 trainees from its Mysuru campus who were terminated by the company on Wednesday due to failure in passing an internal assessment. These employees were hired and then trained for the role of system associates which usually involves production and maintenance support of softwares.</p><p>Instead, Infosys has offered to train them for 12 weeks for a BPM (Business Process Management) role. However, <em>DH</em> could not ascertain the further details on this offer. </p><p>“At Infosys, we have a rigorous hiring process where all freshers, after undergoing extensive foundational training at our Mysuru campus, are expected to clear internal assessments. All freshers get three attempts to clear the assessment, failing which they will not be able to continue with the organisation, as is also mentioned in their contract. This process has been in existence for over two decades and ensures a high quality of talent availability for our clients,” said Infosys in response to DH’s queries. However, the company did not clarify on the training offer for a different role. </p>.Infosys settles lawsuits against US unit over cyber incident for $17.5 million.<p>This comes months after the Bengaluru-headquartered company had terminated close to 350 trainees from the Mysuru campus, who were also onboarded after a 2.5 year delay. These employees were also laid off after failing to clear the internal assessment. As previously reported by DH, the trainees said that the level of the test was difficult and out of the reading material provided by the company. </p><p>Karnataka’s Labour Department had given a clean chit to Infosys on labour law violations in the termination of over 350 trainees, later in February. This was in response to a complaint by the IT labour union Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) to the Union Labour Ministry (following which it had directed the state’s labour department to examine the situation).</p><p>Infosys has maintained its position in all these instances, stating that the decisions were taken as per the company’s policies which are communicated to the employees in their contact. </p>
<p>Bengaluru: IT giant <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/infosys">Infosys </a>has offered to re-train around 30-40 trainees from its Mysuru campus who were terminated by the company on Wednesday due to failure in passing an internal assessment. These employees were hired and then trained for the role of system associates which usually involves production and maintenance support of softwares.</p><p>Instead, Infosys has offered to train them for 12 weeks for a BPM (Business Process Management) role. However, <em>DH</em> could not ascertain the further details on this offer. </p><p>“At Infosys, we have a rigorous hiring process where all freshers, after undergoing extensive foundational training at our Mysuru campus, are expected to clear internal assessments. All freshers get three attempts to clear the assessment, failing which they will not be able to continue with the organisation, as is also mentioned in their contract. This process has been in existence for over two decades and ensures a high quality of talent availability for our clients,” said Infosys in response to DH’s queries. However, the company did not clarify on the training offer for a different role. </p>.Infosys settles lawsuits against US unit over cyber incident for $17.5 million.<p>This comes months after the Bengaluru-headquartered company had terminated close to 350 trainees from the Mysuru campus, who were also onboarded after a 2.5 year delay. These employees were also laid off after failing to clear the internal assessment. As previously reported by DH, the trainees said that the level of the test was difficult and out of the reading material provided by the company. </p><p>Karnataka’s Labour Department had given a clean chit to Infosys on labour law violations in the termination of over 350 trainees, later in February. This was in response to a complaint by the IT labour union Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) to the Union Labour Ministry (following which it had directed the state’s labour department to examine the situation).</p><p>Infosys has maintained its position in all these instances, stating that the decisions were taken as per the company’s policies which are communicated to the employees in their contact. </p>