Here is my situation, please bear with me, this is going to be bit long.
I joined a pvt ltd company on 15th jan, 2014 and was never offered an appointment letter or offer letter, which I assume means that I was not aware of the company policies. I often used to go late but was never a problem to my technical head. Though I was told couple of times to reach the office in time and I used to follow it for a couple of days then again back to my normal late routine. As my performance was good so It was never a big issue at all. At the time of joining I was verbally told that initially my salary will be 11-12K/pm and thenwill be incremented to 18-20k per month depending on the perfomance. I regularly asked for my joining letter but everytime the answer was next week. So after a month of joining I stopped asking for it.
When it came to salary I literally have to beg for it for almost 20 days and was given Rs5000/- (noreceiving)near the holi time and was said keep it for the time. So after two months of working and what I got was only 5000/-. When the March got over I asked for the salary again and again delaying for almost 13 days I was given a cheque of Rs6000 with encasing date of 16/04.
The same day when I was given cheque I was given a notice for late coming(which I did not sign) and left in the office itself. Next day I again went to office late and was asked to resign(which I did not gave yet) as I never got the joining letter, there was no question for giving resignation letter and then left the office.
On 16th went to bank to deposit the cheque and guess what there was ZERO balance in their account. I went to office and said the situation and was lucky enough to get Rs 6000 cash in hand which I received in their voucher book. And the same day I was told by my technical head that he will give me call but I never got one. I did not bother to call them back as I never wanted to work their again either.
So my question are
1) Where do I stand here legally( as I was never given any joining letter or app. letter)
2) Though I was told that I will given 11-12k/m but what I got is 11K after working for 3 months, does minimum
wage policy apply here.
3) Can they deduct the salary citing reason late coming( Again no offer letter so I can assume late coming policy doesn't apply).
Any other suggestion are welcome.
I forgot to mention that I was give a letter of Intent on 9th Jan which mentioned that all t&c and policy will be disclosed 20 days after the joining. Nothing else was mentioned in the letter of Intent.
ps:I know going late in office was not professionly right but as I was not offered the letter nor given the salary I made it a routine after 1st month.
