TikTok sacks entire India staff; shuts remote sales support hub [details]

Chinese brief video-making app TikTok has sacked its entire India workers — about 40 workers — and February 28 shall be their final working day.

The ByteDance-owned platform, banned in India in June 2020 over nationwide safety issues, informed its workers they’d obtain as much as 9 months of severance package deal. However, a lot of the workers will solely get three-month severance.

In an announcement to IANS on Friday, an organization spokesperson stated that “now we have taken the choice to shut our India remote sales support hub, which was put in place on the finish of 2020 to offer support to our international and regional sales groups”.

“We vastly recognize these workers and their influence on our firm, and can guarantee they’re supported at this troublesome time,” the TikTok spokesperson added.

In June 2020, the federal government banned TikToktogether with 59 different Chinese apps citing safety issues.

Since then, the nation has banned over 300 Chinese apps, together with WeChat, Shareit, Helo, Likee, UC News, Bigo Live, UC Browser and plenty of extra.

India blocks Chinese apps

The Centre final week blocked over 230 apps, together with 138 betting and about 94 mortgage apps, which had been traced to Chinese hyperlinks.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) was lately instructed by the MHA to ban such apps, which function by way of a 3rd occasion hyperlink.

All these apps had been discovered violating Section 69 of the IT Act and contained supplies which had been deemed as a menace to India’s sovereignty and integrity.

Meanwhile, US Senator Michael Bennett has urged Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai to instantly take away TikTok from their app shops, calling it an unacceptable danger to American nationwide safety.

The US plans to ban Chinese brief video-making app TikToknationwide, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee will maintain a vote subsequent month on a invoice to fully block the platform.

(With inputs from IANS)