Hi.. I have signed a service agreement on the day of joining the company(company is in Gujrat & I am from MP) on 2nd Jan, before joining I have clearly communicated to the company that I belong to a nuclear family & my mother is a cardiac patient & has also gone through 'angioplasty' & my father is a high BP patient so I will have to visit them in the need of any urgeny as there is no one to take care of them & my relatives also lives in other states, and I was verbally communicated by the company's HR person that I will be getting 18-20 days leaves in a year & moreover whenever situation demands I can go & take care of my parents in the situation of any need/urgency. Before joining company's HR manager intimated me that I will have to sign a service agreement of 1 year in which no money is involved & its just a formality, on cross verfiying the HR manager told me that you can even leave the company if there is any critical situation that demands your presense with your parents, for which I agreed. This whole conversation was telephonic. But on the day of joining, the service agreement was of 11 pages with numerous conflicting & dual meaning clauses, few of which also says that in the event of leaving the company before 1 year I will have to pay 6 month's salary(this clause was long & I dont remember the whole I think there was also mention of training but I dont remember precisely), other clause says that after leaving the company I cannot join any other company from the same domain for the period of 2 years & the most disturbing to me personally was that I will get only 5 days leave in a year, after going through these points & some other ambiguous clauses I refused to sign the agreement so the HR manager convinced me that this is a generalised agreement for all employees & that they cant make a seperate agreement for me. On clarifying the agreement's money clause HR manager told me that you don't worry its present for those employees who leave us & join our competitor before completing agreement tenure but you dont worry its not for you. On agreement's 5 day leave policy he told me that the company policy has changed within last 2 days but I should not worry as they will give me leave whenever I wanted & I can take HR manager's words for this. So at last I asked for 2 days time to think over this(& some other agreement clauses) but the HR person told me that I have to sign it right away & I cant even enter my office without signing it but HR manager convinced me to sign it by giving wrong statements & fake promises against the agreement clauses & its monetary value. But on my first day after joining the company no introduction/induction session has been conducted. The whole day no employee talked to me & not even my immediate senior. The same scenario continued for 3 days days, usually no one talked to me, no introduction has been done, my senior never talked to me & in these 4 days not even a bit of work was assigned to me & I was made sit idle for 9 hours in front of a computer monitor. Moreover company's Ops-head talked very rudely & used unethical words(threatening) for the employees one day while giving a speech. On complaining about this uncomfortable & unethical work culture to the HR manager he told me that I will be assigned work soon & as far as other issues are concerned I am not there to change the company policies. On 6th Jan I have to leave to my home as my mother got serious & I intimated the same to the HR manager verbally because my company's email ID was not created till then. After my mother's checkup & all when she got stable, unfortunately I met a minor accident for which I even provided the company with a doctor's medical certificate for bed rest but by then the company asked me to either join the company anyhow or they can hire my replacement so I agreed that they can hire my replacement (I have sms proves of all these conversations with the company's HR person) & also after undertaking company's unethical culture & my odds I decided not to join the company. On 1st Feb I texted to the HR person that I am resigning from my job due to misinformation provided intially regarding leave policy & unethical work culture & will male the same formally through mail when me health recovers & on 15th Feb I formally mailed the same to the company.
Now the company has filed a court case against me & want me to pay 2.5 lacs rupees as compenation against breaking the service agreement. They have sent me a notice from a labour law lawyer. Please note that I have worked in this company for only 4 days. I have not given a minute of trainig neither a single penny againt anything nor I have asked for 4 days salary. I am not having the copy of the service agreement nor I am working in any company as my parents need my care.
Please suggest me what I am supposed to do?
