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Fed Up Indian IT Professionals Want To Be Able To Leave Their Jobs Sooner (mashable.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: India's major IT firms have long required their employees to give a three-month, "non-negotiable" notice before leaving the company, but they could be soon forced to change that. Fed-up IT professionals from across India have reached out to the government, complaining that it is "unrealistic" for anyone to plan that far ahead. Over 28,000 professionals have signed a petition, addressed to the ministry of labor, to take immediate action on the matter. Part of the problem is that many companies are unwilling to wait for three months to have a person join them, many cited in the report say. Some of India's top IT firms including Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, HCL, Accenture and IBM impose the three-month notice period policy on their employees.
Indian ITers: "unrealistic" for anyone to plan that far ahead."
No wonder their software is even worse than what we in the west call spaghetti code, without any detectable design.
In Belgium the time the company gives you is twice of what you have to do. This wil also depend on how long you work somewhere.
So a standard will be that if you have to do 6 weeks when you leave, the company will have to give you 3 months notice If you have to give 6 months, the company will have to give you a year. That would mean that you probably work there for 15 years or so.
Most companies will just let you go and pay out, but by law they can require you to come that period.
As this is something that is all over Belgium, it also means that if you get a new job, nobody will be surprised if you say you will be available in 3 months. When they start looking, they will be aware that this will happen and fire you before they fire the old guy,
e.g. You do the last job interview in December. You sign the contract to start 1st of April. You give your letter of resignation and you do your three months.
From the side of the new company, they start looking for somebody in November, they find you in December. They sign the contract you start the first of April. They can fire the guy you are replacing any time they want, but say they want somebody there till you come without overlapping. They call him into the HR office and tell him he is fired. He gets his box and leaves. He will get a payout of 6 months.
What they can do is do this in January and ask to stay 3 months and get the three months. Stay 6 months or do it at the end of March and stay 6 months.
"But this is of disadvantage of the company" people will say. "Yes it is, so?" I will say.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
No. That would be grave negligence and will result in being fired immediately and no rights on unemployment money. It will also influence later jobs if they want references.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
In your world, maybe. Here in Switzerland, 3 months notice is the norm, and six or twelve is not unheard of for more senior roles.
Sure, you could just not show up. But it's breach of contract, makes you inelligble for unemployment benefits, and would result in a bad reference letter, making it harder to get future jobs as well. Oh, and the company would likely take you to court and claim damages.
That said, it is viewed primarily as being in the employee's favor, as the company must respect the same notice period when firing you for anything other than gross misconduct. It often enough results in an employee being given 3 months garden leave (getting paid while at home) after termination. Even if not, the employer is legally obligated to give you a reasonable amount of time (e.g. 1/2 or perhaps 1 day per week) to interview for new roles.
All in all, it's a nice system, at least as implemented out here.