Hi,
I had entered into a bond contract in january 2015 with my company, stating the contract period as 2 years & breach of which will result into monetary compensation of Rs 75,000 /- from 0 - 12 months & 1.5 lacs from 12-24 months, by employee to employer against any specialised training provided by employer to employee.
The second point being, I will be on probation for a period of 6 months & will continue to be on probabtion even after the said period unless confirmed in writing by management. Also after confirmation of employment if I am to resign withing the contractural period resulting in breach of contract then i am to serve a notice period of 3 months in writing along with all terms stated above.
My reality right now is that I am still on probation since management has not confirmed to me, I resigned in the end of august based on medical grounds clearly stating the reasons in my resignation letter & requesting to be relieved early.
The management is forcibly asking to serve one months notice till end of september in order for a smooth handover of dutied, to which i agreed.
now they put my last months salary on hold without informing me & when i inquired with the HR, i was informed that the management had instructed her to do so, when I asked management the reason for the same, they 'then' informed me that it was inorder to settle the bond amount.
I asked management the question that if the terms of relieving are being followed as per contract then why am i being asked to serve a notice, which is not as per contract, to which the management replied that they will come back to me after having an internal discussion about my contract terms.I am currently serving notice.
Now, The reality of this bond amount is that it is to be recovered only against any specialised training provided to me. I have not received any specialised training & infact i was put on a project directly after 2 weeks without any training. Infact my company does not even have a training program in place & i have not been taken to any site inspections or the company test facility as well during these months of employment.
With reference to all above shared information my questions are:
1.) Can the company force me to serve notice even if it is not part of contract.
2.) Can the company withold my salary "without informing me" on the pretext of bond amount recovery "without providing any training."
I am trying to settle this ammicably within the organisaton itself for which I had put an email stating that my last working day has been accepted as 30th Sept. to management, to which the management immediately replied saying that the imformation shared by me is not true & that the end of notice will only be as per all my contract conditions only, funny part is that this was not communicated to me by management during the meeting while accepting 30th sept. as my last working day. & also nothing regarding any monetary compensation was discussed in the meeting.
3.) Can the management change terms of relieving me after confirming my relieving date & without explictly communicating to me directly ?
Questions to these can really help me since it is stressing me out completely & i have another job in hand with home pick up & drop facility, which will take care of the medical reason for which i am putting my resignation here.
I will greatly appreciate anyone's response & guidance in this matter.
