Can the employees of a parent company be forcibly transferred to a subsidary company of its own ?
I am asking this question in context of Air India is going to hive off its engineering department to a engineering company and want to transfer its 7000 employee to the new subsidary company (AIESL) which will further attract private investment and become a private comapny in the future (which the employees fear).
I want to know whether the air India management can do so by just issuing a notification (saying the terms and condition of service in the new company will be same as the old company) or they are bound to take the option of employees/union.
Details regarding the plan is available at https://www.business-standard.com/india/news/air-india-staff-to-decidefatecabinet-plan/471295/
