Dear Members,
At our company, we had a practice of paying one month's salary as bonus to every employee. We had not been providing gratuity benefit to the employees. Now, since we want to get in line with the statute, in the interests of the employees we are planning to provide gratuity benefit to the employees.
Since we need to get the gratuity funds from somewhere, we decided to provide the employees with the minimum statutory bonus of Rs. 3500 per employee and transfer the remaining amount to the gratuity fund.
Now, the trade union who had been asking to provide the employees with gratuity benefit is refusing to accept lesser bonus amount and is pressurising us to provide the prevalent bonus.
So if we reach at a stale mate (since we are trying to create standing orders) can we take up the case to the labor court? Does our case have a good chance?
Thanks and Regards,
Sourav
