Amazon India Gets Notice On Layoffs Pune Labor Commisioner Sends Notice To Appear On 17th Jaunary 2023

Amazon India Layoffs: Pune’s Labor Commissioner has sent a notice to e-commerce giant Amazon regarding the retrenchment of employees. The company is accused of illegally laying off people by implementing the Voluntary Separation Program. In this notice, Amazon has been asked to appear before the Labor Commissioner on January 17, 2023 with all the evidence in person or through a representative.

Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate) NITES has said in a complaint against Amazon that under the Industrial Disputes Act, no employer can lay off without the permission of the government. According to NITES, any worker who has worked continuously for more than one year in the company cannot be fired without giving three months notice in advance and without approval from the government. The organization says that it works for the rights of the people working in the IT sector.

NITES says that before retrenchment the employer has to submit the application. The application is checked. But the organization says that Amazon has violated the labor law. According to NITES President Harpreet Saluja, Amazon has implemented Voluntary Separation Policy, for which approval was never taken from the Ministry of Labor, which is a violation of the labor law. Amazon has recently said that it is going to lay off around 18,000 global workforce. This decision of Amazon can also have an impact on the people working in India.

During the winter session of Parliament, the government was asked a question regarding layoffs in tech companies, in response to which the government said that the issue related to layoffs in multinational, Indian IT companies, social media to ad tech companies and related sectors Comes under the jurisdiction of state governments.

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