How Can Employees Protect Themselves from Unfair HR Practices and Job Loss?

Hello Seniors,

I am working with a nice company, and I love what I do. However, for the last few months, I have been witnessing various difficult situations around us. People are getting sacked, even if their records are clean, and the HR team is not cooperating at all. They have aligned themselves with management, randomly forcing people to quit and using various methods to make people leave. I have also seen HR managers nodding their heads blindly and even dismissing needy employees, knowing their families are dependent on them.

I believe HR is there to help the employees, but they are doing the opposite, which is very disturbing. One common trick they use is to transfer an employee to a remote location so that the employee quits voluntarily. Sometimes they also randomly ask a person to quit. Their first priority is to save their own jobs and maintain a good impression with management. They don't mind asking an employee to quit, turning a blind eye.

Just last week, they forced a person to resign, citing cost-cutting as the reason!

My Questions are:

1) How can an employee defend their job if they have a clean record, no legal complaints against them, a good performance history, and have been working for more than 2-3 years in the same company?

2) How can one stop HR malpractice?

3) What steps can he/she take with the labor court, labor department, or human rights organizations to prove that they are being terminated without valid reason?

4) Is there any process to claim compensation from the company?

5) What are the odds if he/she follows the above path?

"I know there are no Good or Bad Companies but Good and Bad Managers."

I would really appreciate your responses to the above points.

Thanks and Regards,

AR

Help Needed - Employee & Employer

I can understand your problem. Please find below my answers to your questions:

1. No company wants to lose good manpower that generates revenue or adds value for them. The business agenda for them is to make a good profit, so management expects everyone to contribute to the company's growth as much as possible.

2. How do you know that management is picking employees randomly and sending them out? They might have their own strategies to improve the department.

3. HR definitely works for employees as well as employers. HR is there to suggest to the management and explain the causes and benefits of their activities, but remember, management is the final decision-maker.

4. If an employee is terminated or asked to leave for any reason, they can always refer back to their appointment clauses, which will provide them with all the benefits they can ask for from the management.

5. You can definitely sue the company, but think practically. The company will hire a lawyer, and they can drag the case for years. Employees need not waste time running around lawyers to proceed with the case, and there is also a cost involved.

Regards,
V. Vinutha