The recent graduates have reportedly been told they must do repeated unpaid training to remain eligible to work at Infosys.

For those who are not in the know, Infosys’ cofounder is  Narayana Murthy, Akshata Murty’s dad. She was married to the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak .

Last week, the Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES), an Indian advocacy group for IT workers, sent a letter to Mansukh Mandaviya, India’s minister of Labor and Employment. It requested that the Indian government intervene “to prevent exploitation of young IT graduates by Infosys."

The letter, signed by NITES president Harpreet Singh Saluja, claimed that NITES received “multiple” complaints from recent engineering graduates “who have been subjected to unprofessional and exploitative practices” from Infosys after being hired for system engineer and digital specialist engineer roles.

According to NITES, Infosys sent these people to offer letters as early as April 22, 2022, after engaging in a college recruitment effort from 2022–2023 but never onboarded the graduates. NITES has previously said that “over 2,000 recruits” are affected.

NITES claims that the people who were sent job offers were asked to participate in an unpaid virtual “pre-training” from July 1, 2024, until July 24, 2024. Infosys' HR team reportedly told the recent graduates that onboarding plans would be finalised by August 19 or September 2. But NITES' letter claimed that things didn’t go as anticipated, leaving the would-be hires with “immense frustration, anxiety, and uncertainty.”

Despite completing the pre-training, the promised results were never communicated, leaving the graduates in limbo for over 20 days. To their shock, instead of receiving their joining dates, these graduates were informed that they needed to retake the pre-training exam offline, once again, without any remuneration.

Recruits were told they would no longer be considered for onboarding if they didn’t attend these sessions, at least one of which is six weeks long.

Following NITES' letter, Infosys CEO Salil Parekh claimed this week that the graduates would start their jobs but didn’t provide more details about when they would start or why there have been such lengthy delays and repeated training sessions.

Parekh claimed that every offer we have made will be accepted by someone who joins the company. We changed some dates, but beyond that, everyone will join Infosys, and that approach has not changed.