New Delhi, July 31 -- India's largest IT services provider Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) had recently announced its plans to lay off 12,261 employees, or about 2 per cent of its global workforce, this year. The majority of those impacted belong to middle- and senior-level employees.

Reacting to the development, Karnataka Labour Minister Santosh Lad on Thursday said that his government will look into labour law leniency given to sunrise companies in the state.

"TCS laying off 12,000 is alarming; will look into labour law leniency given to sunrise companies," Santosh Lad told PTI.

"Something unique this is because all of a sudden 12,000 people, that too TCS, is a very huge number. it is an alarming one; our people are talking to them. ...