3 months notice period
prabu
(Querist) 13 July 2012
This query is : Resolved
Hi there,
My wife has been working as a lecturer in a self financing college for the past 11 years. Now having got a better career opportunity she had left the institution.
She had resigned the job well ahead of the beginning of the academic year while the recruitment were going on and new lecturer has taken her place.
Instead of thanking her for her loyalty toward the institution, the head now wants her to pay 3 month's salary for not giving prior notice.
There is such a clause in the agreement which my wife was compelled to sign.
(Earlier the head had cut the 11 years of continuous service to 8 years in pay fixation and my wife resisted in signing such an agreement. However, she was forced to sign the agreement since she was not given her maternity leave salary)
Even worse, the institution now demands 3 months salary under the new scale, which my wife never received even once.
All her benefits including PF gratuity and service certificates are being denied.
I would like to know whom to approach for justice and how to go about.
Advance thanks.
ajay sethi
(Expert) 13 July 2012
contact a local lawyer . need to see clauses of agreement your wife has signed . if it mentions 3 months notice period she is bound to serve the said period . the experience certifcate would be handed over on serving the notice period .
Guest
(Expert) 13 July 2012
Reference of prescribed terms of appointment/ resignation of your wife's appointment and dates of events, like resignation notice date, effective date of resignation, introduction of new pay scales, etc., are quite important, which you have omitted in your question.
