Harrasment

Dear Client,
A forceful resignation amounts to a retrenchment from service if you can prove the allegation with substantial evidence. Once you succeed in proving your resignation as retrenchment, the adjudication authority/Labour Court may pass an order for reinstatement in service even with back wages. Section 25F of the ID Act mandates that the employer shall fulfill certain conditions before retrenching any employee. It states that no workman employed in any industry who has been in continuous service for not less than one year under an employer shall be retrenched by that employer until- (a) the workman has been given one month’s notice in writing indicating the reasons for retrenchment and the period of notice has expired, or the workman has been paid in lieu of such notice, wages for the period of the notice, (b) the workman has been paid, at the time of retrenchment, compensation which shall be equivalent to fifteen days’ average pay for every completed year of continuous service or any part thereof in excess of six months; and (c) notice in the prescribed manner is served on the appropriate Government. The condition given under section 25F(c) requires the employer to give notice to the appropriate government in addition to the other two conditions. Hence, a simple termination as per the contract of employment can prove disastrous in the event the termination is challenged by the employee before the Industrial Tribunal or Labour Court. So, in the prevailing situation, you need to serve a legal notice protesting the arbitrary and unethical action of the employer citing the above proposition of relevant law and if you are not holding the position of Manager/Supervisor but a workman as defined u/s.2(s) of the Industrial Dispute Act then for such an arbitrary and illegal termination in violation of mandatory provisions of I D Act, reach out to the office of the State Labour Commissioner concerned for filing a complaint against the employer for redressal of your grievance. In case you are holding the position of Manager/Administrative Officer in the Company, you have to file a civil suit before the Civil Court for appropriate relief.

A.Dear Sir,
That is what is happening in India. Most of the young people being terminated and instead of termination the Management bring pressures so that the employees resign by themselves. Please approach the following authority.

Dear Sir
Please approach the following authority or similar authority in a state


The Office Commissioner of Labour

Section 12 in The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947
12. Duties of conciliation officers.- (relevant section 12(2) of ID Act)

(1) Where any industrial dispute exists or is apprehended, the conciliation officer may, or where the dispute relates to a public utility service and a notice under section 22 has been given, shall hold conciliation proceedings in the prescribed manner.

(2) The conciliation officer shall, for the purpose of bringing about a settlement of the dispute, without delay, investigate the dispute and all matters affecting the merits and the right settlement thereof and may do all such things as he thinks fit for the purpose of inducing the parties to come to a fair and amicable settlement of the dispute.

(3) If a settlement of the dispute or of any of the matters in dispute is arrived at in the course of the conciliation proceedings the conciliationofficer shall send a report thereof to the appropriate Government 1 or an officer authorised in this behalf by the appropriate Government] together with a memorandum of the settlement signed by the parties to the dispute.

(4) If no such settlement is arrived at, the conciliation officer shall, as soon as practicable after the close of the investigation, send to the appropriate Government a full report setting forth the steps taken by him for ascertaining the facts and circumstances relating to the dispute and for bringing about a settlement thereof, together with a full statement of such facts and circumstances, and the reasons on account of which, in his opinion, a settlement could not be arrived at.

(5) If, on a consideration of the report referred to in sub- section (4), the appropriate Government is satisfied that there is a case for reference to a Board, 2 Labour Court, Tribunal or National Tribunal,] it may make such reference. Where the appropriate Government does not make such a reference it shall record and communicate to the parties concerned its reasons therefor.

(6) A report under this section shall be submitted within fourteen days of the commencement of the conciliation proceedings or within such shorter period as may be fixed by the appropriate Government: 3 Provided that, 4 subject to the approval of the conciliation officer,] the time for the submission of the report may be extended by such period as may be agreed upon in writing by all the parties to the dispute.]