Hello all, I have recently resigned (after working for about 2 months) from an ad-hoc position (as a project scientist at IIT-Kanpur) which was for six months duration. I have resigned through email without any prior notice (I have not signed any bond with the project investigator) due to bad behaviour of the project investigator, less pay than I deserve as per my qualifications and working requirement on Sundays and Gazetted holiday. Please let me know if I am legally not allowed to do this. As I need to work using a computer at his lab, the project investigator has purchased a computer for my working purpose. After resigning he sent a mail to me that I need to pay for the expenses of the computer since it was purchased for my working purpose after my employment. Please provide me the legal advice if I have to pay for the computer which is still with him at his lab and I have used it during my stay at his work place for about 2 months. Thanks, Bipin
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1) what were terms of your appointment?
2) you have to issue proper notice as per terms of your appointment letter
3) serve the notice period provided in your appointment letter
4) you dont have to pay for computer purchased for project work as the computer is beeing used by project investigator . you have not take delivery of the computer
1. Please note without seeing the offer letter of the job it's very difficult to advise.
2. Generally ad hoc employment is not guided by the general service rules but by the particular contract. If the service rules guide such employment then it's so.
3. However in any event you are not liable to make payments for the computer.
4. For non payment of your legitimate dues you can file writing petition in high court.
Good luck.
Thank you Ajay Sethi and Devajyoti Barman for your advice. Please have a look at the text of my appointment letter and let me know if the project investigator can take any legal actions against me due to resignation from the post without any prior notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear XYZ, This is my pleasure to convey that the Dean R&D has approved your appointmrnt as PROJECT SCIENTIST (Adhoc) in the project No: XYZ on a consolidated salary of Rs. XYZ per month starting from 11-NOV-2016 to dated:10-MAY-2017. The appointment is purely temporary for a period not exceeding six months and your services can be terminated at any time without notice and without assigning any reasons. You will be entitled to a casual leave of two days for a period of three months. If the offer of appointment is acceptable to you on the terms and conditions stated above, you are advised to report for duty to the Principal Investigator of the Project by 25-NOV-2016, failing which this offer of appointment shall automatically stand cancelled. Immediately upon joining your duties, you should a joining report duly forwarded by the Principal Investigator, to this office. Tentatively, a personal reference number of XYZ is being alloted to you. All correspondence with this office should be referenced with this number. Please note that as per the institute rules, the maximum length of service for a project employees in a project or several projects cannot exceed five years in the instittue. Yours Sincerely XYZ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1) there is no notice period mentioned in appointment letter
2) since your service can be terminated without any notice you can also resign without giving notice
As per offer letter neither your legitimate dues can be withhold nor you can be asked to make payment towards the computer.
You can seek redress from high court as I advised earlier.
1. The appointment letter makes no mention of any notice period to be served by you. So you were free to resign with a short notice which could have been given over email.
2. The computer had been purchased by the project investigator to enable you to discharge your official duties. On your resignation it will stay in the office, hence you are not liable to pay him for the computer,
As I need to work using a computer at his lab, the project investigator has purchased a computer for my working purpose. After resigning he sent a mail to me that I need to pay for the expenses of the computer since it was purchased for my working purpose after my employment. Please provide me the legal advice if I have to pay for the computer which is still with him at his lab and I have used it during my stay at his work place for about 2 months.
If there was no conditions in the employment offer letter, you may just ignore this and shed your fears.
The computer is not your property that the investigator is demanding the cost of the same, It is purchased by the department hence he cannot be demanded for paying its cost.
You can reject the demand and challenge the same if he is approaching court, but he cannot aproach court for this since there is no valid reason for him to approach court on this.
Please have a look at the text of my appointment letter and let me know if the project investigator can take any legal actions against me due to resignation from the post without any prior notice.
The employment offer letter is just for six months and there is no clause mentioned that you cannot resign before the expiration of the term.
The investigator cannot sue you for leaving this company by tendering your resignation by email.
However in your interest, you may send a formal resignation letter even now mentioning that you have already sent your resignation through email in advance.