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San Francisco: IT major Wipro has laid off at least 120 employees in the US state of Florida due to “adjustment due to business needs”.
The company listed the layoffs in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notice (WARN) notice filed with the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, Channel Futures reported.
The job cuts at Wipro are limited to one location in Tampa.
“More than 100 affected employees are processing agents. The rest are team leaders and team managers,” the report said.
In a statement, Wipro said this was an isolated incident.
“Wipro remains deeply committed to the region. And other Wipro employees serving customers in the Tampa area will not be impacted,” the company told the publication.
The report also indicated that the permanent strikes will begin in May.
The Indian IT major announced the opening of its US headquarters in East Brunswick, New Jersey earlier this month.
Wipro has approximately 20,500 employees located throughout the United States, Canada and LATAM (Mexico and Brazil).
In India, Wipro fired more than 400 new employees in January for poor performance in internal assessment tests.
At a time when the job market has been hit by increasing layoffs, Wipro has asked its new recruits, who are being paid Rs 6.5 lakh a year, if they can work for Rs 3.5 lakh a year.
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