Good Suggestion by Mr Simhan and Mr. Saikumar…
Kishan as you said that you have formulated the policies with full support of your management or that your Management is ready to apply these norms; I don’t think you need to think over this issue more or before applying these changes in your organization you need to be granted by any employee whether he/she is old or new.
One must not question on the efficiency of Management or People who comes under Management. Making/ Formulating the policies for the Organization, is comes under the Management official work. And if these employees are not agreeing on these changes, they are doing the same and directly in oppose to Management.
If im not wrong, you have made the changes in your office timing as 9.00am to 5.00pm/6.00pm from your old timing 10.00am to 6.00pm/7.00pm. Change in Morning time, right? And I hope you are not forcing unconditional timing to them or disobeying the rules laid down in the Section of Employee/Worker timing under the Act because it seems you forget to mentioned the change that you have made here in Office Timing.
I understand that these employees are working for your organization since a long time and they certainly have contributed much for your company but they must not forget that they all are just employees not a part of Management even they must respect and accept the decision of Management because they knows their management better being very old employees.
I agree with Mr. Simhan that one must take care of employee benefits while making policies but I don’t think that Management would take any step in this regard before considering effect/impact of these changes to their employees /Organization and employee benefits. Certainly these things would have considered and discussed with all heads of the departments and direct concerned before applying these changes.
Not every single employee can be consulted before making these changes whether she/he is an old or new employee.
Second, Management is not sitting there for few employees but for all and they have their own style and have to run accordingly. If Management has granted you to implement these changes or formulate the policies, you can go ahead and inform all employees by “Circular”
Third, I have never seen in my career that an employee has left the job just because he/she was not comfortable with office timing if they have never forced to work unconditionally.