Needle Factory, located in Industrial Area Phase 1, Chandigarh, fired 37 employees
Corona period and then lockdown. Everyone has had to bear the brunt of it and is also suffering. However, the Prime Minister of the country, Narendra Modi, said in his address that during the lock down period, neither a company will remove an employee from the job nor will his salary be cut. On behalf of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the companies were urged not to remove any employee from the job. But the situation is the opposite, companies are doing their own arbitrary and employees not only got salary cuts but they have also been fired from the job citing Corona crisis. 37 employees of Groves Baccarat Asia Private Limited (Needle Factory) located in Phase I, Industrial Area, Chandigarh are going through such bad times. Who was suddenly thrown out of the company in the first week of December. It has been taken out without any prior notice to all the employees… and without consulting the office bearers of the union…. These workers are performing peacefully outside the company office. About 37 employees have been fired by the company. Talked to all these employees.
Those who said that every employee had been working here for the last 20 years and he has played an important role in taking the company from hail to floor. The company has fired them without any compensation… and who will employ them now. Where will they get employment now? They see the future of themselves and their family is bleak. They do not understand how they will take care of themselves and their family in future. All the employees have decided to go on hunger strike for the next 07 days if all the employees did not get justice even after sitting at the gate for 51 consecutive days.
Talking to reporters with sad hearts and teary eyes, all these fired employees said that when the company needed them, they were hired day and night. Now the company showed him the middle exit which is wrong. … laid off … 37 employees have been serving in the company for the last 07-20 years. Their job and their family was being looked after, now they will not give any job at this age. Rather, the jobs that he used to do in the needle factory, there is no demand anywhere. Now those people cannot work anywhere else, because they do not get any more work. The company is extracting them from the lock down citing the economic damage caused to the company, while the company is not running at a loss. 25% of the salary of all workers was being cut after lock down and even later. Which has not yet been paid to them. He says that the top management and other staff of the company are also taking a lot of salary, their salary is not deducted because they are doing their work from home, the management does not say that nor do they get any old staff employee fired Gone.
President Shailendra of Groz Baccarat Asia Private Limited Workers Union told that he has also gone to the office of Municipal MP Kiran Kher regarding his agony, from here he has got an assurance that his complaint will be resolved soon. He has also met BJP state president Arun Sood, he listened carefully to them and assured them of help. Shailendra told that all the employees have decided to go on hunger strike for the next 07 days if all the employees did not get justice even after sitting at the gate continuously for 51 days.
Needle Factory located in Industrial Area Phase 1 Chandigarh fired 37 employees
He said that he has also complained against this to the Labor Commissioner so that he can get justice. But even after almost 02 months, he has not yet got justice.
