Reliance forcing performing employee to give up employment
Kumar Doab
(Querist) 15 June 2011
This query is : Open
G is aged 38 years, and married. His wife is housewife. He has a son aged 13 years and has aged and dependant parents.
He has working experience of 19 years.
He joined Reliance Communications in Aug 2009 as Key Accounts Manager with CTC Rs. 4.20 Lac p.a. and got 3 rating in the annual appraisal. After one year, due to some family problems, he took transfer to his home town as Relationship Manager, in the same company.
He took his responsibility very seriously & helped to develop very congenial relations with the corporate in his Clusters & for the same he was declared number 1 RM PAN India basis, and was awarded certificate by the highest authorities. He even got appreciation emails from his reporting authorities.
Corporate Customers are really satisfied by his services & service delivery time.
In April, 2011, he got information from Circle office that he has been included in the list of unmapped employees (employees who have to be removed from employment). His CSD Head, and his Reporting Manager, also confirmed the same. But no one was able to explain the exact reason behind it or his fault. Everyone just stated verbally that it is due to cost cutting. All unmapped employees were informed only verbally that they have a time till 30th June, 2011.Either they should get themselves adjusted in any available position in the organization, that too with their own efforts & relations with other departments or they will have to move out of the company after 30th June, 2011.
After few days he got himself interviewed for getting into sales force, and was offered the role of a Team Leader in another Channel. He was upset since he already worked as a Team Leader at Cluster Level & has sufficient experience of team handling.
Another blow was that his CTC will be reduced from Rs. 4.40 Lac p.a. to Rs. 3.5 Lac p.a. i.e Direct reduction of approx. 40% plus after that there would be PLI which will cause up to 50% reduction.
On the one side company is issuing slogans about Employee Centricity& on the other side; Employees are facing such humiliating situations.
Moreover every Company in the market is well aware about what is happening in Reliance and the employees who try to get employment in other companies are asked the question - why you were unmapped? The unmapped employees are not getting employment.
Instead of being rewarded for the commendable performance at National Level, he is being forced to accept a lower profile & lower CTC. His bosses are justifying it by saying that he should feel lucky that Organization is giving a chance for further employment and he should take it as "SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING".
This is just like that employee is a criminal & earlier he was sentenced to death but now he is being offered life imprisonment instead of death penalty.
Another employee joined at the same position (as that of G) at a lower CTC (and this employee was also unmapped, which implies that it is not employee but the post/designation is unmapped)
was offered to join at another location with 80% rise in CTC and employee will happily accept it.
Whereas G joined at a higher CTC, performed very well, and is being asked to join at half the CTC and that too as a fresh appointment after resigning from his original post. He is being pressurized to join at whatever is being offered after resigning from original post.
The bosses have been spared and are assigned the task of pruning the lower level employees. The boss of G resigned and position was vacant. G submitted his candidature for this post and was declined by the superiors, stating verbally many other senior employees are trying for this job.
Kindly advice what steps should be taken.
