The sacked workers at Maruti Suzuki India Ltd’s Manesar plant in Haryana may have launched an agitation seeking their reinstatement, but none of them has legally disputed the management’s decision to dismiss them.
None of the 546 dismissed workers till date has served any ‘demand notice’ to the concerned labour official in Haryana, sources said.
Maruti Suzuki sacked these workers after a violent incident at the Manesar plant in July in which one management executive was killed and many others were injured. The sacked organised a two-day agitation starting Wednesday.
According to the Industrial Dispute Act, any workers sacked by the management has the right to challenge the decision. In case the terminated worker is not satisfied with response of management, he or she can approach the labour office for conciliation by serving them a demand notice. However, till date, not single Maruti worker has served any demand notice to the concerned labour official.
According to the Act2 (A) of the Industrial Dispute Act, dismissal of an individual workman is deemed to be an industrial dispute. “Where any employer discharges, dismisses, retrenches or otherwise terminates the services of an individual workman..., such discharge, dismissal, retrenchment or termination shall be deemed to be an industrial dispute.”
Sources say the sacked workers could have called for industrial dispute following which the case could be reconciled in 45 days, failing which the case automatically would have moved to the labour court.
