I work for a product development company in travel domain and my prior experience was in Banking & Financial Services. Exactly 3 within months of joining, one of our QA did Live Hotel bookings on Test Environment without knowing it.
Nobody realised the mistake and finally after 5.5 months the client sent a mail that during testing we have made LIVE bookings to the tune of USD 638.
Then the management decided to get back the amount from the team and HR started the negotiating process
I asked the HR to tell me the amount the management wants to get back from the team and who in their opinion constitutes the team.
HR said he will get back with the required information and left for campus recruitment.
My salary was credited on a weekend and the following monday i checked the payslip and found a term \"Miscellaneous Deduction\" to the tune of 10903 INR. Immediately i called the HR to confirm and my worst doubts came true. The management has went ahead and deducted from my salary without my consent.
I checked with my other team members if any amount has been deducted, but the deduction happened only for me and there is not even a single notification before deducting or after that.
I sent a mail putting down the scenario and the discussion happened but its been a week and no one has responded.
What is more funny is that there has been couple of incidents which has happened in the past but since the amount was very small (which i got to know after this incident) the management took care of that. Silly part is, the management did not even bother to build some check points after the first two instances to prevent any such untoward incident happening. Also, there was no communication of the previous incidents which would have helped now.
Even now, the management doesnt want to discuss this topic behind closed doors and hush up.
Do i have any legal options to get back my hard earned money
Nobody realised the mistake and finally after 5.5 months the client sent a mail that during testing we have made LIVE bookings to the tune of USD 638.
Then the management decided to get back the amount from the team and HR started the negotiating process
I asked the HR to tell me the amount the management wants to get back from the team and who in their opinion constitutes the team.
HR said he will get back with the required information and left for campus recruitment.
My salary was credited on a weekend and the following monday i checked the payslip and found a term \"Miscellaneous Deduction\" to the tune of 10903 INR. Immediately i called the HR to confirm and my worst doubts came true. The management has went ahead and deducted from my salary without my consent.
I checked with my other team members if any amount has been deducted, but the deduction happened only for me and there is not even a single notification before deducting or after that.
I sent a mail putting down the scenario and the discussion happened but its been a week and no one has responded.
What is more funny is that there has been couple of incidents which has happened in the past but since the amount was very small (which i got to know after this incident) the management took care of that. Silly part is, the management did not even bother to build some check points after the first two instances to prevent any such untoward incident happening. Also, there was no communication of the previous incidents which would have helped now.
Even now, the management doesnt want to discuss this topic behind closed doors and hush up.
Do i have any legal options to get back my hard earned money