Understanding the Legality of TCS Bonds in India: Insights on Service Bonds and Employee Rights

I have quit the job in a year. However, TCS has a bond signed for 2 years. Should I pay 50,000 INR for this? I need any legal reply. Will there be any legal issue in this aspect. Thanks.

Please click on the links in the sidebar on the right. It's possible that your query has been answered before.

Similar threads have been started and similar queries have been raised. You should have searched different threads.

Anyway, to answer your question, bonded labor is not legal in India - BONDED LABOR. Service agreements are very much valid. When you are recruited for providing service, they would be providing you some training, and they would charge you the cost of training they are to or already have paid to train you. Apart from that, there are other costs involved while recruiting, i.e., opportunity cost, etc. However, breaking a service bond is synonymous with paying the bond breakage charge.

You need not proceed legally having known the company that you've mentioned (actually which isn't allowed); you can always talk to the HR and negotiate or ask the consequences of bond breakage.

Hope this information helps.

Dear Lav,

The same topic is discussed at length in the thread below. You will find various aspects of the service bond in this thread. You will surely benefit from it to make the right decision. Still, after that, if you have any queries, I will be more than happy to answer them to your satisfaction.