Discrimination in compensation among employees
sameer
(Querist) 17 February 2016
This query is : Resolved
Sir, I am an employee of one MNC in india and been working in this company from last 14 years. Now this company has been merged with other MNC in India. This reform was done on 1st Oct15. Across globe, this is termed as a Joint Venture of 34%(our Co) & 66% (new Co, and in India, this new company has bought our company.
Now, this company has created a new vertical and currently placed all of us (employee of old Co) under that newly formed vertical.
I have been working on a supervisory role in my company and covering Field job & Market and have few reportees.
My reportees and all of their collogues across PAN India, who are members of Trade union BKMC, were asked to resigned and leave the Co with a peanut amount as a compensation. Since they are in to register trade union they opt a legal way and they all have filed a case in labour court in their respective towns across India. As a result management, who had offered them a peanut amount to leave the job, came with an offer of VRS, which is 4 times more compensation then what they had offered them before.
Now since it is a court matter, and prolong battle, management has started to approach us and started conveying us to resign and take a peanut as a compensation. This is a case of Discrimination among the employee of the same Company. Since we are as a supervisory role employees, & are not unionized under any trade union, management is now trying to threat us and asking us to leave with what ever they offer us otherwise we will lose this offer also. We at a similar designation role, across India are requesting management to offer us same VRS, that they had offered to our reportees. They are not ready for this. Also they refuse to provide us a copy of an agreement that was done between both the company during merger.
Please guide me, what can be done in this case? Jobs are not available for us in this new venture. If no job, but can we, as a management employees, go legally to increase our compensation on the ground of Discrimination ?
What steps we can take and we should take to get a Job or good amount of compensation. Management is not giving any thing in writing. They threat us to terminate without any compensation if do not agree to them.
Plz tell me what can we do in this whole case?
Santosh Goswami,Advocate
(Expert) 17 February 2016
Though it needs an in depth study, I could say that if the discrimination is there, we can bring a suit for direction and can claim compensation.
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Rajendra K Goyal
(Expert) 18 February 2016
Consult some service law expert, show him all the documents and discuss in detail.
