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Dear Sir, I was working in Public Limited Company as a "Deputy Manager" from last 13 years. Every year I am getting the normal increment. In Oct 2019 I have received an increment of 8% in my salary. But suddenly in Dec 2019 the company gives me termination letter. I need to challenge this termination letter. Can I challenge this letter in civil as well as in labour court?. or Can challenge the case in both court simultaneously ? Please suggest.

Presently I hv got some good opportunity at another organisation and I have resigned through mail comunication to my reporting manager and given 45 days of notice where company asking me to do 60 days of notice ..I explained them it will be tough for me as other company is not accepting and if I do 60 days I wl loose that option...but current company is not understanding...and forcing for 60 day...I am ready to pay for 15 days but that also they are not accepting..please suggest and help me

I was employed as a duty medical officer at a private hospital without signing any employment agreement. Today I was told I was removed due to 'complaints' against me. One of them was I had not written discharge summaries of patient,. I have to find out the details tomorrow. What I want to know is if it is illegal for the hospital to do so (they didn't even inform me by themselves , I had to ask around)? I did not sign any employment agreement, nor was I asked to. If I ask for my pay dues & work experience certificate, can I still take them to court ?

I got placed in Cognizant Company in jan 2019 but still didn't get my call letter. Is it ok to send legal notice to that company?

My previous employer has not paid me pending payments worth Rs. 1,00,000. I have approached the CEO multiple times, he keeps saying we don't have money right now. It has already been 2 months, what should I do?

We are from an autonomous Institute (located in a complex hilly region) under Department of Science and technology, Govt of India. At our institute the promotion of Group A Scientists and Engineers are done through Modified Flexible Complementing Scheme (MFCS) which was introduced by the DoPT vide Circular No. AB-14017/37/2008-Estt (RR) dated 10 Sep 2010. Under this scheme the Scientists and Engineers have to go through two levels of assessment for promotion from one rank to other. The first one is Internal Screening where the ACR/APARs of the Scientists and Engineers who completes their minimum residency period gets reviewed and based on that the recommendation for the External Screening is made, which is the second level of Screening. The External Screening Board (ESB) is constituted by the Appointing Authority and is composed of the members external from the institute. The ESB during assessment take into consideration the Work & Self Appraisal reports, the reports from the Internal Screening Committee, and the recommendations from national and/or international experts. In front of the ESB the candidate (Scientist/Engineer) have to present their work (ppt presentation) they carry-out during their residency period and have to answer the questions asked by the ESB members. The ESB prepares about a page summary report, the specific content of the work done justifying the merit for consideration of promotion of the candidate. The recommendation of the ESB is then placed before the appointing authority for approval and orders regarding promotion get issued accordingly. Ok above all are the procedure adopted here at our Institute. Now coming to our case. There were 7 employees who called for assessment by the ESB members on 23 Dec 2019. The breakups of all the 7 employees (here designated as M, N, P, Q, R, S, and T for easy understanding): a) M and N - called for assessment for promotion from Engineer-C to Engineer-D after completion of their Minimum Residency Period (4 years) plus 6 months delay. b) P, Q and R - called for assessment for promotion from Engineer-D to Engineer-E. In this candidate P was called after completion of their Minimum Residency Period (4 years) plus 6 months delay, while Q and R were called just after the completion of their Minimum Residency Period. c) S - called for assessment for promotion from Scientist-D to Scientist-E just after the completion of his Minimum Residency Period (4 years). d) T - called for assessment for promotion from Scientist-E to Scientist-F after completion of his Minimum Residency Period (5 years) plus 6 months delay. The ESB panel comprises of 8 external members, our institute Director (who newly joined 7 days back) and one Scientist-F from our institute whose role was to brief about the works carried out by the candidates during their residency period. All the candidates were reviewed by the ESB board members on the same day and the outcome are as follows: (1) M and N granted promotion w.e.f 1 Jan 2020. (2) P (past Director's own brother) granted promotion w.e.f 1 July 2020 (3) T (nephew of present Institute's Governing Council chairman) granted promotion w.e.f 1 Jan 2020. (4) Q, R, and S were defered from promotion in the year 2020. Now the strong points with Q, R, and S are as follows: (1) The ESB members, including the new Director and the called Scientist-F who conducted the interview do not have any expert from the field of their specialization and, therefore, the performance in the interview for Q, R and S had not be communicated properly (by the Scientist-F of the institute) and assessed by the board properly. (2) In the past the same ESB had assessed the performance of 8 Scientists and Engineers-D to E but they had never defered any candidates so far, and even this has happened first time in the Institute's history. (3) The newly joined Director has came from an institution (located in a metropolitan city) where the Scientists and Engineers-D usually gets promotion not less than 5 years, and he is strongly holding an impression that the post Scientist/Engineer-E is equivalent to Associate Professor post for which atleast 5 years service in the lower grade should be there. So he might have tried to impose his own viewpoint and influenced the committee to do the same. This is because the same ESB had reviewed earlier in the past and had never defered any case, and this time the only change in the panel was the inclusion of this new Director. Also if one can clearly see the ESB views while making an assessment of P, Q, R and S. Since P had already crossed 4 years 6 months when called for Assessment so the ESB had granted him 6 month delay, hence overall he will be promoted to Scietist/Engineer-E at 5 years. On the other side since for Q, R and S they had just completed the Minimum residency period (four years) so the ESB members would have thought that let them defer from promotion at this stage and will call them afresh next year when they completes 5 years on their present post. (4) The strong point with Q was that he got consistently excellent grading in his ACRs and he was deeply involved in the jobs assigned to him, with R the strong point was that he was awarded with PhD on-job (without any sort of study leave) with very good publications and performed all the duties assigned to him, and with S the strongest point was that he was having 30+ research publications. On the other hand, the candidate T who offered promotion was hardly having more than 2 research publications. And candidate P was not having even a single publication. All these clearly reflects that the performance, qualification and competency of candidates Q, R and S were over looked by the ESB members and illegally defered their case of promotion. Seeking advise on how Q, R and S challenge the decision of ESB.

Hi, I was working with amazon when a company called ADP called me. I was doing very well in amazon and was in line to be promoted to a leadership position. But since ADP was a good company, i quit and joined ADP. after two weeks they have terminated me saying i have failed a drug test. I have never done drugs in my life. Because of them I lost my career path at amazon and i'm working for a very small company now. They have also told my friends and my friends stopped talking to me thinking I'm a drug user. this happened about 6 months ago and these 6 months were the worst of my life. I even sent an email to the HR and the center manager but they did not respond. I was ready for additional tests and I am even now ready for a lie detector test. Can this be taken forward legally?

I am working in a company and have resigned on December 20th stating that my last day would be 17th Jan. As per company policy I can either serve the notice or buy out the remaining notice that I can't serve. But my company is forcing me to serve my notice. How should I proceed in this case as I am relocating so I will not be able to extend my stay in the company.

I am central government employee. After 43 years age my post is upgraded to Be group. My annual income exceeds 9 lacks. Am I eligible to get obc ncl?