Facing Forced Resignation Due to Business Struggles: How Can We Address This Unfair Practice?

Dear all senior, I have been working in the admin department for the last 10 years with a proprietorship company in Kolkata. Recently, the company has not been able to secure business adequately as expected, and as a result, they are willing to reduce the workforce. The management is pressuring staff (not necessarily the marketing staff) to submit a resignation letter effective one month from the current date as a one-month notice period. It is unfortunate that the management is pressuring mostly those employees who do not have any control over marketing, while offering a fantastic increment to the marketing team. Can anybody highlight any areas to stop this practice?

Clarification on Designation and Workman Status

What is your designation, or are you covered under the definition of a workman under the ID Act? What is the nature of your organization? Please see my post on this site today, addressing similar queries.

Your employer intends to retrench staff due to falling work volume. They also intend to continue with the marketing staff. To escape retrenchment proceedings and liabilities as laid down in the Industrial Disputes Act, they are pressuring employees to submit resignation letters. Such actions are totally illegal. Either they should prepare a separation scheme with attractive benefits and give options to employees whom they want to remove, or if there is an employees' union or a group of employees, they may approach the Assistant/Dy Labour Commissioner of the area where the company's office is located and file a written complaint under the ID Act.

All the Best,

I have a question regarding my job.

Query: How and why can a company give performance-related reasons when downsizing the workforce due to reduced projects? Also, in this situation, what reason can I provide to the interviewer to secure a new job? I have been a good performer as well.

Please guide me.

Thanks.