Legal questions on Labour

Delay and later denied Appraisal while termination.

Hi, I started working in a MNC (Tech company) on 24th November 2017. Due to their policies I got only one increment till 2019 and that too was not consulted with me. I reported this to HR but HR said that appraisal process is closed and should inform them next year if this happens again. In Feb 2020, I was released frrom project and spent 3 minths on bench and in May I was asked to resign as ...

Termination without notice

Hello Sir, I am employed in this org since Sep 2019. I have had issues with my peers, like body shaming, character assassination, bad mouthing, passing derogatory comments etc.. I did raise this issue with my reporting Director Dec 2019, and asked him to set up a call with HR. He never took any action. As I did not hear anything from him, I directly reached out to HR in the month of January ...

Not approving special sick leave

Working at Voltas limited-A TATA enterprise. I have suffered a knee ligament injury on 2nd June 2020. I gave an application on mail for special sick leave for 3 weeks with certificate from my doctor (form 4) and MRI scan report. My manager has not approved leave. Quoting his reply here- "Special leave is not permissible. He was asked to reach his official location on 26th May, but the commu...

Regarding the Bond in one private company

Hello Sir/Mam Iam P Harish,I I completed Masters in central University.Due to some family situations I got frustrated and I joined in a company which is having a bond of three years.And they clearly mentioned I need to submit all my original documents from SSC to M.S.C and I submitted all my documents and I signed the bond with three months notice period.At the time of joining the company rul...

Job termination without any Notice

Sir, yesterday i got an mail from my school and that was an termination latter. When i see that latter i was shocked and they terminate me in this Covid-19 pendemic situation whitout any notice. I write the words below used by management department of my school in termination latter. To, Mr. XYZ Sub: Regarding the Termination of your services. Dear Sir We regret to inform you th...

Can I resign without a notice period if I have not signed the employment agreement letter?

Dear Sir/Madam, I was a physiotherapist fresher and I joined my company in March on 3 months probation period. However, I only went for orientation for 1 week in March and then fell sick so I was told to stay at home for 2 weeks due to fear of it being COVID-19. I was to be part of a new venture of clinics and due to COVID-19, the clinics did not start up in March as per schedule. The...

Non-payment of Variable Pay (Annual Variable Compensation) by my erstwhile employer

Hi, I would like to bring to your notice a concern with regards to the non-payment of variable pay/annual variable compensation by my erstwhile employer. I was employed with my erstwhile employer (IT Sector) located in Pune for little over a year (from Feb 14 2019 thru Apr 09 2020). I have resigned from duties on 11th January 2020 and got relieved from duties on Apr 09 2020 after serving the ...

About employee absconding

Respected Sir/Madam, I was working in an NGO. On 28th April 2020, I gave a prior notice of 2 weeks of my Resignation. However, the HR asked me to submit whatever the tasks are assigned to me on 30th April 2020. I submitted on that day itself. She told me that the organisation is going to accept the resignation effective 30th itself, hence my last working day was 30th of April 2020. The HR a...

Appointment of ex servicemen in LIC

I have been selected in LIC assistant exam in ex servicemen category. I am still serving in Indian Air force and due to retire on 31 Jul 20. As per DOPT OM Ex servicemen are eligible to apply on year before discharge. I have submitted NOC issued by IAF during document verification. My NOC states that I will be released from IAF on selection to any civil post on producing appointment letter. I g...

Company t & c during lockdown

I am working in private company. Before the lockdown start company announces leaves that we need to come when they call. So i came to my hometown more than 200 km from the company. My city is in red zone... Company forcing me to join till 11 may 2020 anyhow while my city is in red zone... The city where company is in red zone. They are forcing me to break 188 and if the police caught or my ve...

Recovery raised by previous department after 03 years of Transfer to other department

Dear Sir/Madam, I was working as a clerk in a govt. institute 06 years ago. I was handling fees collection from students. During my service in the institute, I was couple of times maltreated by one of my seniors. 03 years ago, I was transferred in the middle of the session (Feb month) to other office....However post closing of the session in institute, my senior due to personal grudge go...

Mentally torture by an employer

Hello, mai ek cg employee hu, aur mera HoB mujhe bahut pareshan karta rahta hai, har chhoti chhoti bat pr, mujhpe chillana, gussa ho jana aur meri burai karna. Mujhe job me aae jyada din nahi hue mai nyi hi hu. But kuchh pata n hone par v vo bahut gande iljam lagata hai. Pahle vo mera HoB nahi tha, iske aae 8 to 10 months hue aur starting me mere najdik aane ki koshish kia mujhse personal bat k...

Method of Promotion

The employer called application for filling up the 752 vacancies in Clerical Cadre from Sub Staff Cadre. For the purpose of eligibility candidates were divided into three categories-(1) Graduates with 2 years service (2) 10+2 or equivalent with 3 years service and Non-matriculate with 8 years service. As regards, method of selection, it has been provided that Graduates would not be required to ...

Illegal suspension harassement

Illegal reduction of salary, absence of transparency w.r.t rotational transfers, harassement, fabrication of fake complaints, issuance of suspension order from job based on fake complaints, mob-lynching by coworkers. Puneeth K M, Working as Postal Assistant in NSH-Mysuru of Mysuru Postal Division, where for asking some information under RTI act, 2005 regards to witholding of increment and c...

Maternity Leave in DNB training

Sir, My DNB training tenure ends on 17.07.2020 (Previously it was supposed to end on 05.06.2020, 6 week extension was given to all trainees in view of corona outbreak). My expected date of delivery is 18.07.2020. I requested maternity leave from 20.04.2020 to 17.07.2020. But, my request has been denied from my hospital saying that my EDD falls outside of the leave I requested. So, basically the...

Applying for New State Govt. Service by hiding information about present Central Govt. Seevice

Sir, My friend is presently serving in one Department of Govt. Of India since 2010 to till date continuously and his services have also been confirmed. Accordingly he is also a NPS PRAN account holder wherein both employer and Employee contribution has accumulated to a considerably big corpus as of now in this 10 years of service. He has also acquired a degree in between his service period on ...

Maternity benefits

Respected Sir Myfriend worked as pgt guest teacher in a govt school since 2008.But due to promotion of regular teachers to pgt, few guest teachers were relieved and she was one of them. But after gap of almost 1 year, she was given tgt post of concerned subject in janaury 2014 . By that time she conceived, joined on 24 Jan 2014 nd delivery date was in June 2014.Due to complications in pregnanc...

20% pay cut anounced in my company due to COVID-19

Hello, Mine is an engineering services company headquartered in the UK, the Global leadership team sits in the UK and all decisions are made from the UK. We have our company in India in Mumbai and my query is that recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our company has announced 20% paycut for all employees accross. They have specifially mentioned to apply 20% pay cut on the basic salary. Al...

Termination for breach of confidentiality

Hi, I was working as a COO-India operations at a Sec 8 company in India. We have our registered office in Delhi. I used to report to the South Asia CEO. We have our global HQ in Singapore and that has no legal relationship with the Indian company. On a call with the Global CEO from Singapore earlier this month, I was told about a few disappointments that the HQ had about the performance o...

Non receipt of my salary and other dues

I had been worked in a Engineering College in Bhiwani, Haryana for nearly 8.5 years (16.08.2011 to 25.01.2020) at different capacity and relived as Associate Professor and Principal of the college. In the last 1.5 years of my service there, the management of the college always kept my salary pending for 6-8 months. Moreover, the deducted my salary by 10% from June 2019. Due these reasons I resi...