Dear Mr. Keshav, Nathrao,
Thank you for clarifications on my (may be) somewhat ambiguous statement. Not being education in 'legal' field, sometimes the choice of words may not be very precise... :-)
What I wanted to say was, that the MNC is not the Indian government (With all due respect), which declares monitory relief almost immediately, upon any mishap. There is a difference in relief money & compensation money & there are different processes for that.
The questioner thinks that during his duty hours, company should take care of "everything" automatically. That, the personal level interventions are not needed. We see many cases of incidents, where work ethics are broken, illegal immigrations happen, corruption is supported, under the name of "this is requirement of my company". These all cases are very much personal, but we think that we are doing them for company, so company should be responsible for it.
If went wrong, many company related things can have very grave effect on personal life.
I travel many times for my work. Every time I personally ask the cab driver if he is sleepy. Once I even had demanded to change the cab for this reason. I ask him to stop for any tea/smoke breaks as per his comfort. Everytime he stops, I check that the area is safe to stop. If it does not feel so, I deny to stop there. I even fire the driver, if I see him driving rash, as it is my life that depends on it & not the company profit.
But I have seen many times, that travelers think of drivers like machines assigned to the work of delivering them.... especially employees returning from abroad, that they want to reach home at earliest, & try to push the driver without required breaks from driving.
I am not saying that it is not driver's fault in this case, but MNC will always take impartial view as the concerned employee & the cab company, both are hired by the MNC.
Being emotional to either side will only complicate the matters, & hence the company will stick to processes & rules.
Best Regards,
Amod Bobade.