A whistleblower ex-employee from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has alleged that the Indian IT major was “gaming the system” and committing “visa fraud” to bypass United States labour laws and H-1B visa rules, Bloomberg reported.
Anil Kini, who was an IT manager at TCS' Denver office has alleged that he was ordered to falsify internal organisational charts and misclassify employees as a coverup by executives, according to the report.
Notably, Kini's current petition is an appeal, as his first lawsuit earlier this year was dismissed, the report added.
Livemint could not independently verify the report.
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Kini told the publication that TCS mislabeled frontline workers as managers to use the L-1A visas to bring them to the US. He said the practice began during the first Donald Trump administration in 2017, when rules employment visa rules were tightened.
He accused seniors of instructing him to falsify internal organisational charts and misrepresent frontline employees as managers in order to bypass scrutiny over the visa requirements, the report said.
Kini is among a few other former TCS employees who have filed federal lawsuits against the company under the False Claims Act.
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