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Business Standard New Delhi

Offering severance packages to labour leaders to get rid of them is not an idea unique to Maruti Suzuki India Limited. It is, in fact, something of a time-honoured practice in the industrial belt of Gurgaon-Manesar, say labour activists. In the last couple of years there have been at least three instances of month-long strikes ending with union leaders exiting the company after taking a “full and final settlement”. Interestingly, in 2000, Maruti followed a similar strategy at its Gurgaon plant, though that was called a “voluntary retirement scheme”. Since then, the Gurgaon plant has had no strikes.

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First Published: Nov 10 2011 | 12:49 AM IST

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