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icon Employer asking to reduce working hours forcefully

Due to covid 19 pandemic situation my employer asking me only to work 4 hour a day. But other employees he allow to work 8-9 hours i.e. full time. I want to work full time but he pressurized me to co


A. Hi,
If any agreement had been agreed upon by both of you which gave him the right to exercise his powers of reducing your working hours, then its fine. Otherwise, you can file a suit against your employer for his said act under Industrial Disputes Act. Thank You
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I worked for DXC technologies for 12 days. I resigned and came out due to health issue. I did not serve notice period that is 30 days. Now company demanding money for notice period. I am financially s


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They cannot expect you to serve longer notice than the number of days you have worked. Explain your reason for resignation to them and provide suitable proof of the same.
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I'm employee of an IT company where one of the two partners walked out of the company and asked me to join his new company. I was asked to resign from my existing company and digitally sign the soft c


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You cannot begin working with the new company until you have resigned from the old one. Serve them with legal notice to grant you the release letter.
1. You will have to give the correct date of resignation along and work through the necessary notice period.
2. The person who was in charge when you tendered the resignation is the right person, this is a bogus claim by the company to scare you. You could not have served your resignation anticipating who would be HR manager in the future.
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icon employer refused to pay salary

can i file a case against my employer who intentionally refused to pay salary in my offer letter, there was a clause mentioning " it is compulsory that he/she has to do client visiting atleast 12/13 o


A. Dear Sir,
If you are not continuing your job in the same office then you can file a money recovery suit and back arrears of salary along with Rs. 2,00,000/- towards mental torture.

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icon Technical resignation for lower grade pay job

Sir, I am working in 4200gp job in Central govt. under MHA and want to join 2400gp in other department of central government because of getting my home state through ssc cgle 2018 exam which includes


A. Dear Sir,
You may approach Central Administrative Tribunal to get justice.


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icon Shutting down an administrative department

1)Can an administrative department be shut down temporarily by labour court? 2) Is it possible through standing orders? Or standing orders are ok only for workmen ? 3)Is there any way possible in law?


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You may approach High Court to get stay order on such action initiated by Labor Court.

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Dears Sir, A particular employee was hired for a Job and he was in Probation. The Job also required client handling and doing sales pitch but he declined to do that. During the probation period most


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Ask him to take legal action and it is very difficult for him to go to the Court and to file recovery suit. Even then you will get much time to defend yourself and ultimately his claim will be rejected.

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icon Illegal clauses in NDA

I have already served full notice period; the resignation was accepted and last working day has been communicated. Now, the company wants me to sign an NDA and fill up feedback form in order to issue


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Section 27 in The Indian Contract Act, 1872
27. Agreement in restraint of trade, void.—Every agreement by which any one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind, is to that extent void. —Every agreement by which any one is restrained from exercising a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind, is to that extent void." Exception 1.—Saving of agreement not to carry on business of which goodwill is sold.—One who sells the goodwill of ...ReadMore

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I am working in an insurance company and I have put my resignation n asked them for Immidiate reliving and I am ready to opt for 2 months notice period buy out option. But the company is forcing me to


A. Need to talk to give proper legal advice. And need to study your appointment later as well.

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I joined a company on 15th February 2021. The role was of a counsellor cum faculty in a institute. My contract has the following salient points: Probation period of 3 months, I would jave ti give 60


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From the facts of the case, it is clear that there was a clause in the contract which clearly has mentioned about the notice period. You have an obligation to follow the terms and conditions of the contract and not violate it unless the law says you to do so. If you found this helpful, please rate us.

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