--- On Wed, 10/6/09, Kiran K Karthikeyan <kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Kiran K Karthikeyan <kiran.karthike...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [silk] pay up, or stay here
> To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
> Date: Wednesday, 10 June, 2009, 11:55 AM
> 2009/6/10 Kiran Jonnalagadda <j...@pobox.com>
>
> > Wouldn't this fall foul of bonded labour regulations?
> >
> > A friend of mine quit an IT major three months after
> joining, while still
> > in his mandatory training period. His superior said
> she couldn't record it
> > as a resignation. She'd get investigated for that, so
> she was going to mark
> > him as absconding.
> >
> > He received a notice from them demanding he pay up the
> "training fee" bond.
> > A lawyer advised him to ignore it since it wouldn't
> stand in court anyway.
> > He did, and in over six years since, hasn't been
> bothered by them again.
>
>
> Same thing happened to me, but I paid up since the company
> I was joining
> agreed to pay the bond. Incidentally, I did recieve a
> summons from the court
> - so its not ignored by the court and they do give it a
> hearing. Of course,
> if the summons have not been served i.e. if you have not
> recieved it, then
> you have an excuse (I think). A friend of mine changed
> addresses in between
> his time at the same co and therefore got away with it.
>
> Kiran
Be very clear that the implementation differs between countries. TCS has won
some landmark judgements in the US, they don't have much hope in India. On one
assignment, I had the task of clearing (abandoning) Rs. 17 lakhs worth of
pending bond recovery cases which everyone knew were not going to be recovered.
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