A former Tech Mahindra software engineer protested outside one of the company's Hyderabad offices on 23 July 2026, alleging she was terminated after taking leave to care for her 11-year-old daughter.
She says she took 13 days of medical leave in June after being hospitalised, received a warning letter, and was dismissed in July without an opportunity to explain her absence.
Under Section 2(s) of the Industrial Disputes Act, and the Karnataka High Court ruling in CIT v. Texas Instruments India, a non-supervisory software engineer is a workman and probationers are cover…
None of the allegations has been independently established. Tech Mahindra has not commented on record, no FIR has been registered, and published accounts differ on her tenure, the length of her lea…
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