People 'excellence' or people 'exploitation'

I recently have completed an assignment for a so called 'services' organization and am surprised to know that over 80% of the employees who leave the organization are exploited in the name of processes, even to the extent of asking them to pay back salary the organization has paid to them while working for them (including, in the cases where an employee is asked to resign forcefully or resigns at his own will because of abuse at work) and then later on demanded a notice salary citing the agreement/contract which the employee generally signs in good faith while joining the organization.

I have a case of an employee who had joined the organization and soon realized that he was at a wrong place as within 10 days he was commented for 'no results coming' out through his little efforts.  He resigned as soon as he received salary of the period he worked (though, the organization releases salary after 15th of the next month)- the employee was not only threatened over phone but also was asked to pay them back the salary and tax to get his relieving letter, he made a demand draft and was not even allowed to step out by the security guard of the firm. Yet in another case, an employee was asked to resign forcefully and when it came to full and final settlement, he was given excuses but not the wage for the days he worked, not even his expenses which he had incurred for discharging of his field duties. He left as it is citing 'they would not change'. And in one more such case,  a HR manager's work was commented as  'donkey work' for her sincere efforts which ended by her resignation. 

I am sure, this number would go in hundreds in one single organization and nobody had really lodged a police complaint (section 120 B of the constitution allows an employee to file a FIR against the company's promoters for conspiring, which attracts immediate arrest. Or if you go and complain to a local labor commissioner office, its under his purview and enforcement right that he may help you release your salary by meeting the concerned in such organizations. I name it as 'lack of initiatives' and 'chalta hai' attitude or 'its the same everywhere' attitude which allude in the minds as we generally think not to get into 'troubles'. The day you would look at this as your 'fundamental right', your perspective would change totally.

We have so many forums but how to drive this, educate people of their fundamental rights and then fight back with these so-called 'mighty' people who feel that law and constitution is made to favor them. They build business empires with such unfair practices (I call them brokers of the society) and live a lavish life while on the other side the poor becomes 'poorer'. Do they really have the rights to exploit the employees who join them seeking a career and growth in life??  Even in the 67th year of independence and democracy in India, people working with such organizations are still  to get 'freedom' from the clutches of these so called 'employers' though they are just 'brokers' exploiting people in the name of processes.

I am of the opinion that I should work on to volunteering role for this cause- to curb these kind of bonded labor contracts and I believe they should not exist in this democratic country. I am, also surprised to see that the top executive in the organization, who know all of these unfair practices- are partner to this crime and projects themselves as professionals with a 'shameless' expression on their faces.

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