US Senators Charles Grassley and Richard J. Durbin have reached out to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) CEO Krithi Krithivasan with serious questions about the company’s hiring practices involving H-1B visa workers. In a letter dated September 24, 2025, the senators expressed their concerns about the company’s decision to hire many foreign workers while also laying off 12,000 employees worldwide.
The senators highlighted what they described as “troubling employment trends” in the tech sector, pointing out the contradiction in TCS’s actions. While the company is cutting jobs, it continues to file petitions for H-1B visas to bring in foreign talent.
In the letter, they posed nine specific questions to TCS aimed at understanding the company’s hiring policies and the effects of its actions on the American workforce. The company is expected to respond to these inquiries, providing relevant data, by October 10, 2025.
### The Nine Questions
1. Why is TCS hiring foreign tech workers when many American tech workers have recently lost their jobs?
2. Does TCS genuinely try to fill open positions with American candidates before applying for H-1B visas? Please explain.
3. Are H-1B recruitment ads listed separately from regular job ads, potentially obscuring them?
4. Has TCS replaced any American workers with H-1B employees?
5. Are H-1B workers at TCS receiving the same pay and benefits as American employees with similar qualifications? Please share details.
6. How many H-1B workers at TCS were hired at entry-level wages, and how many remain at that pay level?
7. Does TCS use outside firms to hire H-1B workers?
8. Of the H-1B workers at TCS, how many are directly employed by the company?
9. Among the H-1B petitions approved in 2025, how many workers were placed in roles at companies other than TCS, and who pays their salaries?
In addition to TCS, the senators also raised questions about other major tech firms such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Walmart, indicating broader scrutiny of the industry’s hiring practices.
