Dear Colleague,
I recently joined a leading Ltd company as a full-time Trainer. However, the HR in this organization has a set of rules to only release the first month's salary with the second month because it is less than half the salary for thirteen days. Is there a policy? If so, please clarify.
It's a big inconvenience to bear the expenses incurred for more than one and a half months of commuting. Since I am the only breadwinner in my family, I can't even ask anybody for petty help.
Awaiting your valuable reply soon.
Regards,
SS
From India, Madras
1I recently joined a leading Ltd company as a full-time Trainer. However, the HR in this organization has a set of rules to only release the first month's salary with the second month because it is less than half the salary for thirteen days. Is there a policy? If so, please clarify.
It's a big inconvenience to bear the expenses incurred for more than one and a half months of commuting. Since I am the only breadwinner in my family, I can't even ask anybody for petty help.
Awaiting your valuable reply soon.
Regards,
SS
From India, Madras
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Dear Colleague,
The other rule was to submit all my credentials from A to Z, i.e., from the time I completed my 10th standard till date. I have more than 15 years of experience and found this organization to be strict in terms of HR policies. Please give me some valuable advice on whether I should wait for the first-month salary to be credited with the second month or flag it up.
Appreciate your valuable reply soon.
Regards,
SS
From India, Madras
The other rule was to submit all my credentials from A to Z, i.e., from the time I completed my 10th standard till date. I have more than 15 years of experience and found this organization to be strict in terms of HR policies. Please give me some valuable advice on whether I should wait for the first-month salary to be credited with the second month or flag it up.
Appreciate your valuable reply soon.
Regards,
SS
From India, Madras
Dear SS,
First and foremost, you should have given a proper heading to your post. An appropriate heading should be "Disbursement of Salary." This post is not related to a soft skills trainer.
Coming to the solution of your problem, it is a strange rule that HR in your company follows. There is no legal sanction to this rule. The monthly salary, even for a day, has to be paid by the 7th or 10th of the following month. The date will vary according to the number of employees the company employs.
HR, often in their zeal to please their bosses, comes up with these concoctions.
You may first talk to the HR of your company, but possibly they may not budge. Those who have the temerity to come up with this rule, whether they will listen to the newly appointed soft skills trainer, is doubtful.
The next option is to approach the labor office of your area and lodge a complaint with them. But then, for this, you have to wait until the 10th of the next month to get the salary. You can approach the labor officer only if the salary is not paid.
However, the biggest question is if you take up cudgels against HR or the company as a whole, will you be able to protect your employment? Approaching the labor office will hit a soft nerve of your management, and they may terminate you on some flimsy grounds. You say that you are the breadwinner of your family. Therefore, can you afford to take up cudgels against your management? Exercise prudence before you take your gloves off.
This is the tragedy in India. There are millions like you who suffer silently. Employers can throw the laws to the wind wantonly and get away. The poor economic conditions of employees force them to swallow this injustice. This has happened though yours is a public limited company. Few private limited companies are still worse. There is no proper mechanism that monitors the labor laws effectively. Labor laws in India are misnomers. In all practical purposes, these are "Employer Laws." Yet our HR fraternity prefers teaching their bosses "Rights of Employers under Labor Laws." Sometimes the lid blows suddenly, and cases like violence at Maruti Suzuki factory happen.
This is the downside of economic liberalization. Economic liberalization has benefited the lower class the most. Too many job opportunities have dwindled the trade union movement. It's so easy to quit a job today. Some 20-25 years ago, a problem like yours could have been handled easily. All that was required was to approach the union office of the area and tell them the problems anonymously. The union leader's visit to HR (then Personnel Department) was sufficient to understand what lay in the future. The average employee considered the union leader as a lesser evil, notwithstanding their whims and fancies. Today, this cushion of the trade union has gone. This has left employees like you high and dry. There is no proper machinery wherein you can redress grievances. But then I predict that the trade union movement will resurface once again, and at that time, it will sweep across all industries.
Is your company a listed one or only a public limited company? If it is a listed one, then what is your company secretary doing? He is supposed to ensure compliance with all the laws, which include labor laws as well. But then, like HR, this is yet again a toothless profession.
Ok...
Dinesh V Divekar
From India, Bangalore
First and foremost, you should have given a proper heading to your post. An appropriate heading should be "Disbursement of Salary." This post is not related to a soft skills trainer.
Coming to the solution of your problem, it is a strange rule that HR in your company follows. There is no legal sanction to this rule. The monthly salary, even for a day, has to be paid by the 7th or 10th of the following month. The date will vary according to the number of employees the company employs.
HR, often in their zeal to please their bosses, comes up with these concoctions.
You may first talk to the HR of your company, but possibly they may not budge. Those who have the temerity to come up with this rule, whether they will listen to the newly appointed soft skills trainer, is doubtful.
The next option is to approach the labor office of your area and lodge a complaint with them. But then, for this, you have to wait until the 10th of the next month to get the salary. You can approach the labor officer only if the salary is not paid.
However, the biggest question is if you take up cudgels against HR or the company as a whole, will you be able to protect your employment? Approaching the labor office will hit a soft nerve of your management, and they may terminate you on some flimsy grounds. You say that you are the breadwinner of your family. Therefore, can you afford to take up cudgels against your management? Exercise prudence before you take your gloves off.
This is the tragedy in India. There are millions like you who suffer silently. Employers can throw the laws to the wind wantonly and get away. The poor economic conditions of employees force them to swallow this injustice. This has happened though yours is a public limited company. Few private limited companies are still worse. There is no proper mechanism that monitors the labor laws effectively. Labor laws in India are misnomers. In all practical purposes, these are "Employer Laws." Yet our HR fraternity prefers teaching their bosses "Rights of Employers under Labor Laws." Sometimes the lid blows suddenly, and cases like violence at Maruti Suzuki factory happen.
This is the downside of economic liberalization. Economic liberalization has benefited the lower class the most. Too many job opportunities have dwindled the trade union movement. It's so easy to quit a job today. Some 20-25 years ago, a problem like yours could have been handled easily. All that was required was to approach the union office of the area and tell them the problems anonymously. The union leader's visit to HR (then Personnel Department) was sufficient to understand what lay in the future. The average employee considered the union leader as a lesser evil, notwithstanding their whims and fancies. Today, this cushion of the trade union has gone. This has left employees like you high and dry. There is no proper machinery wherein you can redress grievances. But then I predict that the trade union movement will resurface once again, and at that time, it will sweep across all industries.
Is your company a listed one or only a public limited company? If it is a listed one, then what is your company secretary doing? He is supposed to ensure compliance with all the laws, which include labor laws as well. But then, like HR, this is yet again a toothless profession.
Ok...
Dinesh V Divekar
From India, Bangalore
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