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National Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) in the letter written to CM on Tuesday said several IT/ITeS/BPO/KPO companies across Maharashtra have started terminating services of their employees without any reasonable cause and withholding or deducting their salaries.
This is in complete breach and violation of directions and advisories issued by the Maharashtra government,” NITES general secretary Harpreet Saluja said.
“In such testing times, the rights of employees ought to be protected by necessary orders and directions to the companies by the government, as prospects of several employees of the country are under a dilemma,” reads the letter.
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“It is our fervent hope that such exploitation of employees does not occur in the future and the working conditions will improve at a faster pace,” the letter said.
“Employers who are in a dominant position are taking harsh decisions and unconscionable bargains with employees, it said, adding employees are in no way responsible for the present pandemic lockdown situation but are at the receiving end. In the absence of issuance of any binding orders to the private companies, thousands of employees are losing their jobs and income daily,” the letter said.
“Also, no procedure like notice period, intimation to government authorities, payment of retrenchment compensation, gratuity, leave encashment, has been undertaken by companies, leading to a lot of unfair labor practices,” it added.
Saluja said that the letter was sent to Thackeray on Tuesday and an acknowledgment from the CMO has been received.
The NITES claimed it has raised issues of more than 68,000 employees and filed petitions with labor commissioners and district magistrates against illegal terminations, reduction in wages, deduction of earned leaves, and issues like forceful resignations and forcing employees to apply leaves as the vacation.