Hi Sir,
I was working for one of the biggest telecom companies Bangalore office and I was facing an issue of workplace harassment and perhaps a wrongful termination.
I have been threatened and harassed to resign for months and when I refused to do so finally they have terminated me by siting a clause from my offer letter, which I believe was wrong. I have consulted few Lawyers and some of them told me that if such term is mentioned in the offer letter you can not do anything about it.
But then I came across one of senior lawyers comment on a post : "Just remember the terms of your appointment letter that services can be terminated without assigning any reason are not legally valid and does not stand effective in the eyes of Law Courts." This gives me some hope.
I am just not able to connect to the senior advocate who mentioned this in that comment.
There are many other employees from my company who has been forced to resign in a similar way.
But my question is can any employee be terminated without cause just because the appointment letter have such clause ??they almost always have that in the offer letter. If yes then why are they forcing people to resign why not use this to terminate anyone ??
Regards,
Rohit
I was working for one of the biggest telecom companies Bangalore office and I was facing an issue of workplace harassment and perhaps a wrongful termination.
I have been threatened and harassed to resign for months and when I refused to do so finally they have terminated me by siting a clause from my offer letter, which I believe was wrong. I have consulted few Lawyers and some of them told me that if such term is mentioned in the offer letter you can not do anything about it.
But then I came across one of senior lawyers comment on a post : "Just remember the terms of your appointment letter that services can be terminated without assigning any reason are not legally valid and does not stand effective in the eyes of Law Courts." This gives me some hope.
I am just not able to connect to the senior advocate who mentioned this in that comment.
There are many other employees from my company who has been forced to resign in a similar way.
But my question is can any employee be terminated without cause just because the appointment letter have such clause ??they almost always have that in the offer letter. If yes then why are they forcing people to resign why not use this to terminate anyone ??
Regards,
Rohit