When The Clock Doesn’t Add Up: Infosys Fined ₹2 Crore In France

Even IT giants aren’t immune to paperwork problems. Infosys has been fined €175,000 (roughly Rs 2 crore) by French labour authorities after regulators found gaps in how the company tracked employee working hours — a reminder that compliance rules don’t bend for global scale.

Infosys Fine, Broken Down

What Actually Went Wrong

According to Infosys’s exchange filing, the problem wasn’t how many hours employees worked — it was whether the system tracking those hours held up to French legal standards. French labour law requires employers to maintain accurate, auditable time records, largely tied to the country’s statutory 35-hour work week. Regulators found Infosys’s system fell short on exactly those fronts: reliability, audit trails, and monitoring for some employee groups.

Infosys has been quick to clarify that the penalty won’t dent its financials, operations, or client deliveries. Still, the timing is notable — it comes as the company tightens in-office attendance rules back home in India, extending stricter norms to more senior job bands.

For a global IT major juggling labour laws across dozens of countries, this fine is a small but pointed reminder: one-size-fits-all HR systems rarely satisfy every jurisdiction’s fine print.

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