NEW DELHI — The National Commission for Women has formally instructed Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a $170 billion global IT corporation, to begin complying with the 2013 POSH Act, after a fact-finding report revealed the company had managed to avoid implementing the workplace harassment law for over a decade.
The directive explicitly mandates the company to constitute separate Internal Committees across all 127 of its units. The intervention follows a scathing probe into the firm's Nashik facility, which uncovered "zero compliance," a "governance deficit," and pervasive sexual harassment targeting Gen Z women.
"We are an agile, forward-looking enterprise, and sometimes eleven-year-old federal mandates get lost in our onboarding materials," said a corporate spokesperson, speaking on behalf of a company that employs over 600,000 workers worldwide. "We thank the commission for clarifying that providing a non-toxic work environment free of systemic bullying and religious insults is a statutory requirement, rather than an optional synergy."
The spokesperson added that management is currently allocating resources to determine how a multi-billion-dollar technology giant capable of building complex global software architectures could possibly engineer a functional harassment redressal mechanism.