Hi All,
I worked for an Indian employer for 4+ years, joined there as trainee and was thereafter confirmed. In the last project, i was working as a contractor for another Client company. Eventually, i got an offer from the client company and joined them. The Client company is a bigger MNC and currently also has some ongoing projects contracted to my previous company.
After nearly 1.5 yr of leaving, the previous employer has sent a legal notice stating some clause in the "employment terms and conditions contract" that i have breached the contract by joining their client within 12 months and hence they want to file a civil and criminal case for recovering the loss of business and also legal fees.
Also, they made a batch of trainees including me sign the contract/agreement during confirmation time, without providing us a copy of the same. Unknowingly i signed it, without going thru the whole doc as we were under pressure to submit signed copy of doc immediately.
Also i faced a lot of harrassment from my manager during the last two years with employer as despite getting multiple appreciations was giving a low performance rating.
He tried to find faults with everything i did and created a hostile work environment and i was forced to take a decision to leave. It was at about that time i got an offer from the client and hence joined them immediately.
What are my options here to defend myself? What can the employer demand from me? How do i counter this situation?
Ideas? Anyone?? Please help!!
I worked for an Indian employer for 4+ years, joined there as trainee and was thereafter confirmed. In the last project, i was working as a contractor for another Client company. Eventually, i got an offer from the client company and joined them. The Client company is a bigger MNC and currently also has some ongoing projects contracted to my previous company.
After nearly 1.5 yr of leaving, the previous employer has sent a legal notice stating some clause in the "employment terms and conditions contract" that i have breached the contract by joining their client within 12 months and hence they want to file a civil and criminal case for recovering the loss of business and also legal fees.
Also, they made a batch of trainees including me sign the contract/agreement during confirmation time, without providing us a copy of the same. Unknowingly i signed it, without going thru the whole doc as we were under pressure to submit signed copy of doc immediately.
Also i faced a lot of harrassment from my manager during the last two years with employer as despite getting multiple appreciations was giving a low performance rating.
He tried to find faults with everything i did and created a hostile work environment and i was forced to take a decision to leave. It was at about that time i got an offer from the client and hence joined them immediately.
What are my options here to defend myself? What can the employer demand from me? How do i counter this situation?
Ideas? Anyone?? Please help!!