I'm not sure if such a contract AKA bond is even enforceable in India. 
  
 A lawyer might be able to help evaluate the contract and suggest ways to bypass. 
  
 @JadeArgent could help

Software Developer

Bumping this again. She's anxious and is having not so great thoughts. She's going to talk to the senior staff (pricipal and up) today. Hopefully, things get sorted out without much drama.

Her principal passive aggresively said "Congratulations, pay the contract and leave."

Product Manager

Check with a lawyer and doctor, on basis of health problems she can leave, such contracts are not enforcable. Check with lawyer for finer details in contract. 
  
 As per my experience issue of being alive negates other clauses and as alwyas devil lies in details, need to evaluate contract

These contracts are not enforceable. Unless you have the certificates withheld with the institute, just inform them via a letter or email and just walk away

Tech Lead

Thoda urgent matter. Please respond with your experience dealing with such things.

My friend is working as a teacher at an international school with peanut salary, bad work environment, health issues due to pollution and wants to now move out of the school/city for other personal...

My friend is working as a teacher at an international school with peanut salary, bad work environment, health issues due to pollution and wants to now move out of the school/city for other personal reasons. What should she say to get out of the job before the contract ends? (1yr left out of the 3yr contract)

Contract: You'll pay all the salary (2yr) so far, the training costs and other benefits along with bank interest rates.

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days but our notice period is of 90 days. Is there something I can do to get early release? Please give some suggestions

I got an job offer from another company but they want me to join within 45

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Hey all, 
I have completed 1 year and want to get out of this shitshow going at my company. Thing is next company is looking for immediate joiners. 
I have a 1 month notice period and about to put papers, how can I get my notice period reduced?

How to get notice period reduced?

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Is 18 months employment bonds valid in India ??

Employment bonds

Learning And Development

Hey Folks.
I'm writing this as something unpleasant and disturbing has occurred to my friend at the workplace. Last month a friend of mine applied for paid/unpaid sick leaves of 12 days with a doctor's note for her treatment.  After approval from HR and managers (on the rejoining date), they fired her without notice on the joining date without any explanation.

I wanted to understand what are the legal options available for this? I'm perplexed

Need advice on wrongful and unethical termination

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I've been at a firm for 5 months, Received an offer for 4x my CTC, But I need to join in a month (notice period is 3 months) what to do?

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The company haven’t paid us 3-6months of salary saying that there’s a delay in raising VC funds. They also didn’t pay TDS and gave us Form 16 for ITR. 

I reached out to our client company where I worked briefly and they were happy to offer me a job there. I’m dangerously out of money in savings and it’s still uncertain in my current company about any funds. So I have given a early date to him because I really need their salary and joining bonus to survive actually. I thought I can immediately relieve from my current company as I don’t have finished projects and haven’t involve in new. But they are not responding to my calls and mail requesting for immediate resignation. 


What should I do now ?

My company is delaying acceptance to my resignation

Acceptance of resignation has no value, the day you resigned is considered for notice period start date.

Software Engineer

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My friend-she absconded from a company without any intimation and joined another company but now after 2.8years.HRs suddenly called her and was asking about this her UAN account and if she has relieving letter or something from previous company.

Absconding-Suggestions How to solve

I'm a product designer with 1+ year of experience currently working in a pre seed startup I want to leave the company due to toxic culture, but have three months of notice period my manager is ready to give a salary hike but not ready to reduce my notice period 
How to shop offers with three months notice??

Need genuine advice

There's a clause in my offer letter mentioning I won't be paid for the entirety of my notice period until my exit date. Unfortunately due to problems in my previous company, I didn't go through that section properly and agreed to it. I wanted to ask if it's legal first and if not, what options do I have?

Need some legal advice

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How to manage 3 months notice period?

I have employment bond of 1 year, I just completed 2 months here and I’m not liking the old technology (80’s technology) I’ve been assigned here. The salary is hardly sufficient to lead a basic life too. 
I'm getting calls from Naukri for Java backend roles where I could see myself in the future. 

How do I handle notice period of 3 months if I get an offer and do I really have to pay them 1 lakh as penalty if I leave ?

Employment bond

System Engineer

Hello viner,
A co worker of mine has been put on PIP by the company HR based on her managers feedback. Even though she got an average rating ,she did not get along well with the Manager and he got the HR to put her into PIP. HR here mostly follow what department leads tell them.

But there are some discrepancies :
1) HR has not formally sent her a email informing of the PIP procedure. This is all verbal
2) Her manager also hasn't given her any concrete milestones. He just said that she will be judged based on the feedback from fellow co workers.
3) Of late, the HR has been forcing her to resign even though the final date of pip period has not been reached.

Is this the normal PIP procedure followed in your companies too? 
Or is there something suspicious here?

Startup employee put on PIP but no documentation

Growth Manager

Many GSIs in India have changed their notice period section to reflect 3 months by employee 1 month by employer. Is this even legal ? Can you challenge this during your employment tenure ?

Notice Period

Information Security

Context- I am at a startup with salary and allowances not being paid for almost 6 months now. I plan on to quit within the next 10 days (it’s very scary). How do I ensure that they don’t fuck me over with my dues and make it a painful process? 
What are the things I need to ask for in my resignation mail?

How to leave my job without burning bridges?

IIT grad here building a venture backed startup. I think 99% of folks here believe that venture backed founders are super entitled and in a much "cosier" position than employees

Just sharing a few facts about our journey so far if it helps anyone improve their perspectives-

1) Paying ourselves 33% of our campus salary & 60% of what we are paying to our employees (Talking about Pure Base Salary here, not including ESOPs)

2) Insane stress - You basically have to raise money to build (esp if its deeptech because of the high fixed costs) and there are predefined metrics you have to always chase, sometimes just beyond yourselves. 

Your product will be copied if it's good because well, they always have more money than you. You work 7 days a week for insane hours, chasing metrics required to be "afloat" 

3) 99% of venture backed startups result in 0 liquidity gain for founders. So basically in all likeliness, everything is for a net negative return compared to if we took the campus job

So, when you wholeheartedly bash founders as if they are sitting On a goldmine while you are toiling for THEIR gold Treasure, just understand that more likely than not, there is not really any gold but rather an irrational hope they are clinging to

Also, Yes-we pay above market to our employees (100% hike for the last one) but the truth is some startups just Can't afford it. And ironically, there is a much higher looking down on these startups with meagurely paid founders rather than giants like Tech Mahindra paying peanuts to their employees while having a 1000% salary hike for the executives. 

Yeah, most startups need to do better but please appreciate if someone is atleast trying to do better because trust me, it's INSANELY HARD.. 

The number of posts I see about Flipkart making hundreds millionaires is way too less than the ones I see about pinpointing at every single mistake early stage startups do & I just wanted to express my opinion on it

Peace!

People way overestimate the life of founders

Oh no poor founders, they have to pay fair salary to their employees.

Founder

Company asked for a meeting today to let me know they want to put me on a contractual role. I see some potential projects that I can help with.

I'm thinking of making a proposal tomorrow about how I can help for the next 3 months on a full-time role but I think they've already made up their minds.

Should I accept the contract or quit and search for something better.

I need the cash cause I've got a 3 year old but it seems a bit of an ego hurt that they can throw me around like that.

Fulltime to contract

I work for a fairly popular and large Indian startup and I'm at a considerably senior position. As seen recently also with a lot of startups, my company is creating hurdles in my exit. I've resigned from the company but the company has a policy that allows them to accept or reject resignations at will. They are not accepting my resignation and are threatening me with frivolous law suits. I'm scared and not sure about how true their threats are. 

Can someone please give references of good lawyers experienced in HR practices, service and employment cases etc.? Will be grateful.

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