Ashok Leyland, the country’s second-largest commercial vehicle manufacturing company has suddenly fired 5,800 workers from the Pantnagar plant in Uttarakhand.
The company fired 4,500 permanent and 1300 contract workers on May 30 without any notice period. Even before the term of four years completed for the temporary employees, the company has already fired them without any notice. The company paid salaries to these employees on 16 June, though they were fired on 30 May itself.
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Manoj Singh Rawat, a laborer working in the plant, said that as per the company rules all workers are made to sign a contract working for four years with the company at the beginning of their employment. But by the recent action, we can see that the company has not followed its own rules. The company has also fired most of the workers who had been employed for only one or two years.
2. Interns turned into Workers
This plant at Pantnagar employs about 6,500 workers, of which 4,500 are permanent. According to this, the company has dismissed and got rid of all the permanent workers.
Manoj Singh Rawat who works there said, “The company started after the lockdown impositions were relaxed, the work was going well, but on the evening of May 30, an announcement was made by the company management. It said that the company was going through a recession and they will not be able to handle the burden of so many employees, so they were dismissed from work. ” However, they also added that ‘if the situation of the company improves by October, November, then they will be called back to work’.
The workers say that the company is getting their work done by the workers who survived the retrenchment. Apart from this, the students who were doing a diploma from the company are being made to work by putting them into the production line.
