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Need help - please help

Hi,

I have worked with a company for more than 3 years. I joined this company in March 2012 and was a part of IT Helpdesk department. When I joined this company I was informed that the company pays incentives every month which turned out to be lie and I decided to put down the paper in 2013 and after putting down the paper, my Team Lead asked me why have you put down the paper. I told him that I think the company has lied to me by promising to pay incentives every month. My Team Lead very nicely told me that I should have spoken to him about the incentives before putting down the paper. So after this conversation with the Team Lead, I took my resignation back. The next day, I had a meeting with the Team Lead, Manager and the HR department together. My manager said that they no longer wanted me to work in this department as the client has reported 2 escalations against me one of which was reported 2 to 3 months back in 2012 and another escalation which was recently reported in 2013. Now the interesting part is that the manager and the Team Lead both have rewarded me as the star of the month and star of the Quarter based on the performance and I asked him why didn't the management let me know about these escalations. They did not provide any reason. I even told them that I have documented everything in the ticketing tool and I would.like.to know the Ticket number to investigate it but they did not provide the ticket number. They said that the client doesn't want me to be a part of this team and the HR very cleverly says that she understands that client doesn't want me to be a part of this team but we cannot let this employee leave the company instead we will let him work in a different department. Now they put me in a new process which was being handled by 1 person and he trained me for the process and he has setup this process alone. The company anyway hired a new Team Lead after all the hard work done by the other guy other alone. Now after being in this process for 5 to 6 months, the person who setup the process had a heated argument with the AVP over not making him the Team Lead and hiring a Team Lead instead. The next thing we know is that this guy is not a part of the process anymore, he was told to resign. The very next day, my manager called me and told me that they have got some escalations against the guy who setup the process and also against me and due to which they have asked him to resign and they kept me on bench for 5 to 6 months without showing me any proof of any escalation and then after 6 months they moved me to different department. After moving to this new department, this company has not paid incentives also for more than 1 years 4 months it seems...whereas the incentives is up to Rs7000 per month and is a part of my CTC. I think I have been the scape goat in both the situations. Now that I have resigned, I would like to know if any action can be taken against the company for all the harrasment I have been through for no reason in this company.

please share your valuable advise.

Thank you



 6 Replies

Kumar Doab (FIN)     03 November 2015

Incentives are stated in CTC, hence company can not deny that there was no policy.

Probbaly no incentive policy, KRS's, Tgt Vs performance data etc were supplied to you.

Probbaly later no comunique was supplied to you about its withdrawal.

You may claim the incentives.

Either the company will deny or ask you to prove you were eleigible or you may establish that you were eligible.

 

Tickets raised by you are internal mails of the company and company may not produce these.

However you may demand all internal communications.

Get inot the habit of downloading,priniting or sending communication of personal matters from personal email or by redg. post under acknowledgment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faiz Sarang   03 November 2015


(Guest)

Hi,

I have always beleived in keeping a record either on paper or via email.

I have the letters which prove that I was part of 3 different departments with 3 different designation in these 3 years.

I also have the screenshot of the portal where my manager has approved my rating of 3 and 4 for the Variable Incentives Payout but the company now say that the ratings were normalized to 2 and hence they cannot pay the incentives which is not true.

The worst part is that the Ratings from April 2014 to April 2015 was not even filled in the portal until April 2015 and they made us fill the ratings because they wanted to close all the yearly activity which includes VIP, Appraisal on the portal and we were told that the Incentives will be paid next month which was a lie. The manager left in May and we never got the Variable Incentives pay.

The AVP of the company has played a big game with our entire department.

Kumar Doab (FIN)     03 November 2015

'Saying/asking/tellin' etc are all verbal mode of communications and not on record.

 

Normalized; seems to be a vague statement.Was it communicated ever in writing before due date of payment of incentives?

If No : Then how can it be now after separation?

It seems to be an attempt to deny payment!

 

Who  told that incentives shal be paid next month? Did you minute it in writing?

 

Don't remain entagnled with line managers/HR personnel. Escalate to good offices of appointing authority,MD etc.

 

Seek counsel and help from employee's/IT employee's/Trade union leaders/Labor Law Consultant to draft your representations and negotiate and settle with employer.

 

Your

your counsels may opine that you can approach;

 

Inspector appointed under; Shops and estbs Act If establishment and you are covered by the Act, Payment of Wages Act

o/o labor Commissioner

Higher Officials of Dept of labor


Civil Court

etc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


(Guest)

The company never notified about my ratings being normalized to 2 in email or in any writing while I was working in the company. However they have now send me an email after seperation that the rating for Q1 of 2015 was normalized to 2.

My Team Lead has informed the entire department that we will get the incentives next month but there is no proof in email or writing.

 

Kumar Doab (FIN)     05 November 2015

The matter has been discussed in detail. Now you can resolve to YOUR satisfaction BY YOUR own skills or you may lean on employee's/trade union leaders,labor law consultant..

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