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Lawyer suggestions for consultation and for sending legal notice?

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Lawyer suggestions for consultation and for sending legal notice?- Grapevine

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I was working in a toxic environment, which should be a separate post, too long to explain here, tldr, I was put in pip, and then I resigned and put my notice, I like a responsible employee started finishing off my projects and tasks, giving KTs to other folks and junior. but now after this my company is saying ur lwd is 2 days from now, when in my contract notice is 2 months, HR says company has the right to waive off notice period without paying severance. What can I do currently, I don't have any job back up, so have to be unemployed for a while without any severance. Is this legally right from company sides, what possible things can I do currently?

Company terminating without notice or severance

Frontend Engineer

Back in 2021, I joined a small company as a fresher with a promised CTC of 3.2 LPA and a 3-year bond. However, after joining, I discovered the actual base pay was only 1.8 LPA, and my monthly salary was just 10,500₹. So, after five months, I broke the bond and joined Accenture. 

Now, almost three years later, the previous company's advocates are sending me notices demanding 3 lakh rupees as bond repayment, and I even received a notice from the civil court yesterday. 

I'm not sure what to do next. 
Do you think this will affect my future job prospects? 

I have records of that company in my PF account, but I don't consider it as part of my work experience. 

Do you think future employers will ask for documentation for all companies listed in my PF records?

Broke Employment Bond: Legal Notice from Previous Employer

Software Engineer

Sorry for the long post :(

I'm a 2021 graduate from a tier 3 college. I was working at a small startup based in Bengaluru that is into SAAS. The headcount is less than 20 and a completely remote job.

I don't have any notice period. I was told that I can leave the company whenever I want without any prior notice. And it's not mentioned anywhere in the contract. I had a promotion due in September 2022 in which the new agreement was supposed to be implemented where I had to serve a 90 day notice period and salary hike of 15% of my current CTC.

But the promotion was put on hold till now. I asked them multiple times but I was told that it's on hold indefinitely due to "shortage of funds".

On December 31st I sent a resignation letter as it will be my last working day. Even though it was a very short notice, I completed all the documentation about the things I worked on. Anyone who can understand English can deploy the entire product. And moreover everyone had worked on the product and almost everyone had a good understanding of the product. 

Sometime in 2021, I received a bonus of 62k which was sent to my personal bank account (the company itself didn't have a corporate account back then). Since the company didn't provide me any work laptop, I was told casually that I can use the bonus to purchase a new laptop or keep it to myself.

I made a mistake of now waiting to get the December month salary before resigning. Now he's telling me that the bonus he sent is for the company laptop and it will be adjusted as my December month salary. When I asked about the purpose of the bonus was not to get the company laptop but to keep it myself, he's refusing to accept it. (Almost everyone in the company uses their personal laptop).

And coincidentally there was a service outage as the company uses free services wherever available (for example, oracle cloud free tier, free version of slack, GitHub and lot more). Continued in comments....

My company is threatening me

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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.

Product Manager

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The founders are sayings that they’re in process of raising the funds and have been delaying the salary payment deadlines every time. What are my options in case they don’t pay the salaries at all. Is there any way I can push them to make the payments asap. Any legal route or and advise grapeviners.

Not being paid for last 3 months. What are my options?

I need urgent help with an issue I'm facing with Byju's. Despite sending multiple emails to the off-boarding team, I have not received my relieving and experience letters. These documents are crucial for my onboarding process with a new organization, and the delay is affecting my employment status.

I kindly request Byju's to expedite the issuance of these documents. Any assistance or leads on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your help

Byjus offer letter and experience letter not released.

Process Associate

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I'm have put in resignation, and requested 8 days less than notice period 
Now boss wants "copy of offer letter" as to why I want to leave early

Is it legal?
I don't want to share my offer letter 

What can be done

Urgent advice

Consultant

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

As the title suggests, I'm a lawyer and good at what I do. Haven't got anything better to do, so AMA.

Very happy to assist startups and young businesses as well!

I'm a lawyer; AMA.

Lawyer

Hi Folks
I recently got an offer and the notice period over there is 60 days. In my past companies it was 30 days everywhere. Just wanted to know your opinion.

Is the 60 days notice period too much?

Mine is 90  
 I feel like drowning in Harpic

Data engineer

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.

HELP!! My company is not letting me leave!

Growth Manager

Link to the previous post: https://grapevine.in/post/72fa61dc-e75c-4824-8259-178755b694c6

I was coerced into putting in my resignation without any severance or notice period. It didn't bode well with the founder when I refused, and he terminated my employment with immediate effect.

I haven't received a salary for the last month I worked there. The founder and the team are not responding to any of my calls, emails, and text messages.

Any advice on how to navigate this? Contemplating the legal route now.

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