According to IT & ITes employees labour union Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES), Amazon India layoffs are wrong, unjustified and against law. NITES has requested the Union Government and the state labour relations authorities to conduct an inquiry into the layoffs.
Amazon has recently announced a voluntary separation programme (VSP) to its employees in India asking them to voluntarily quit the company if they want to avail the programme’s benefits. Employees not participating in it will be let go without any benefits.
As per the provisions of Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, without prior permission from the appropriate government, the employer cannot lay-off any employee. The company needs to submit an application to the authorities along with the reasons for such layoffs. Then the appropriate government authority will decide whether the layoff can be permitted or not after hearing both the parties.
A lay-off is a situation where the employers are constrained to deny work to their workforce owing to conditions that bring forth a temporary inability to keep their business going. But, this is not the case with Amazon here.
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