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Shalini
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Posted 02-11-2009Reply

Following on from my recent heated debate , the heated conversations apart I realised whilst following the case that there are actually stricter guidelines laid by the honourable Supreme Court on various work place issues. So, I wanted to ask all the members of the forum to vote (yes or no) if you feel that you are using the statutory legal (HR) guidelines in their day-to-day duties, i.e do you consider them while drafting your policies, advising managers, conducting investigations etc.



If you are not in HR or any of the frontline executionary duties do you think that your HR policies are in line with the statutory guidelines.



I am not looking for any explanations here just YES or NO would suffice. If I don't get any responses I will conclude that none of you MIGHT have any knowledge of this. Hoping to see responses from ER people especially.



Thanks



Shalini

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  Rated 0 | Posted 02-11-2009

Dear Shalini....Most of the companies never think of Statutory Compliances....Most of them violate...But at the same time they give due consideration in some areas like PF, ESI etc......

We can't say Yes or No to this question....As it depends on Management of the company...

Every company will stick to some norms and at the same time they violate some....

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  Rated 0 | Posted 02-11-2009

Hi Shalini,

As you know most of the companies have the policy in place and the deviations also you can see only based on case to case basis and most of the time companies are playing with the ignorance of the employee's

Say now many employee know what are the rights they can establish against the employer and what are the mandatory benefits that the company has to provide....

Till then these sort of deviations will continue....If possible try to educate the employee and doestn't mean you are against the employer if you are policy and you are following the guidelines then you should afraid to educate them....

But most of the companies doesn't do as they may get in to trouble that is what the current suitation....

Regards,

Charan

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  Rated 0 | Posted 02-11-2009

Hi Shalini,

As you know most of the companies have the policy in place and the deviations also you can see, and it is based on case to case moreover most of the time companies are playing with the ignorance of the employee's

Say now many employee know what are the rights they can establish against the employer and what are the mandatory benefits that the company has to provide....

Till then these sort of deviations will continue....If possible try to educate the employee and doestn't mean that you are against the employer if you are policy and you are following the guidelines then you should not afraid to educate them....

But most of the companies doesn't do as they may get in to trouble that is what the current suitation....

Regards,

Charan

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  Rated 0 | Posted 03-11-2009

Dear Shalini....Most of the companies never think of Statutory Compliances....Most of them violate..... See Krishna's complete reply


Hi Krishna & Charan

Thanks for stopping by.

Yea, you are right - companies would follow some and leave some. They adhere to the rules in terms of PF & ESI as they are quite evident and recorded proofs within the benefit structures and obviously linked to the finances of the company. They can't fake those!

I understand that the management may not necessarily be on board (trust me they will never be on board 100% anywhere in the world) with the respective guidelines but what I want to hear from HR Pros here is that would HR venture to advise the management that doing so and so could be in breach of the statutory guidelines and therefore could bring the company into disrepute? For example in the recent SH - Live study forum (not sure if you have gone through the details) the company has violated a statutory requirement that every harrassment/sexual harrassment claim should be investigated promptly and thoroughly. In such scenarios would HR advise managment that they are breaching the Employment Law here?

Thanks again for your time.

Rgds

Shalini

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