Tata Consultancy Settles Wage Dispute for $30 Million - Bloomberg

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS), Asia's largest software-services provider, agreed to pay $29.8 million to settle a wage dispute in California with workers who were sent to work in the U.S. from India. Terms of the settlement are described in a Feb. 21 filing with U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland, California. The judge in April certified the case as a class, or group, lawsuit for all non-U.S. citizens employed by Tata in California from Feb. 14, 2002, to June 30, 2005. "This was an extraordinarily hard fought case and we are proud of the result for the employees," Kelly M. Dermody, a lawyer for the workers, said in an e-mail. The settlement also includes Tata Sons Ltd., the software maker's closely held parent, whose businesses include India's largest vehicle maker and steel producer. Workers who weren't U.S. citizen claimed Tata forced them to sign over their federal and state tax refunds to the company and wrongfully deducted Indian salaries from their U.S. compensation. Michael McCabe, a spokesman for Tata, didn't immediately return an e-mail after regular business hours seeking comment on the settlement. The case is Vedachalam v. Tata America International Corp., 06-cv-00963, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (Oakland). To contact the reporter on this story: Joel Rosenblatt in San Francisco at jrosenblatt@bloomberg.net; To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha at mhytha@bloomberg.net via Business - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHsEUWtzTGq6PycdxxRbohSaX-gLg&url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-26/tata-consultancy-settles-wage-dispute-for-30-million.html

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