TSLP Clears Air Over Its Recent Job Recruitment Advertisment

Bhubaneswar: After controversy erupted over a job advertisement for Tata Steel Long Products (TSLP), the company clarified that the advertisement was not meant for any of TSLP’s operations in Odisha.

It is pertinent to be mentioned that a few publications had earlier misinterpreted TSLP’s recruitment notice that the company is not giving employment opportunities to candidates from Odisha in its sponge iron plant located at Bilaipada, Joda.

Clarifying the same issue, TSLP in a statement said that the said advertisement was not for any of TSLP’s operations in Odisha, and was also not meant for external hiring.

“TSLP had issued an internal circular on March 1, 2023, for the recruitment of wards of its employees as Diploma Engineer Trainees for the expansion plan in its Jamshedpur plant in Jharkhand. This was also meant to comply with the Jharkhand State Employment of Local Candidates in Private Sector Act, 2021 (Act No -14 of 2021), which required a certain percentage of the employees below a particular salary level to be domiciled in Jharkhand,” the statement read.

“We wish to inform that 88% of its employees on the permanent roll at the sponge iron plant in Joda are from Odisha. As a responsible corporate, TSLP gives due importance to locals in employment as per government policy, whenever such opportunities arise and stands committed to the inclusive growth of the region,” it further added.