• Relieving before notice period

I am currently working in MNC. And I have resigned and served the 1 month of notice. But in my appointment letter it is written as 3 months notice period. I have been appointed somewhere else where I need to join in upon completion of 1 month notice period. But my management is not agreeing to relive me before 3 months.
Below is employment clause mentioned Appointment letter. 

Your Services can be terminated on 3 months notice in writing on either side or at discretion of the management, by payment of salary in lieu thereof.

I am ready pay my 2 months salary but my management is threatening me that if I leave my job before getting relived from services then they will take legal action against me.
Request you to please let me know whether I need to serve my 3 months notice or I can pay for it??
Asked 6 years ago in Labour

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20 Answers

As per agreement it's mentioned that your job can be terminated by management by giving you notice or salary but the clause does not give you option to pay salary and resign as such it's better to send them legal notice.

You need not serve three months notice since the new company can bail you by paying your two months salary to old company. Better send them legal notice stating that you will contemplate legal action and sue for damages if they do not relieve you by accepting resignation letter and payment of two months salary from your side.

Swarnarka Chowdhury
Advocate, Mysore
1879 Answers
5 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Hello,

Send them a DD of your two month salary by registered post with AD alongwoth the resognation letter.

Regards.

Swarupananda Neogi
Advocate, Kolkata
2964 Answers
6 Consultations

4.7 on 5.0

So you can pay three months of salary and exit the company according to the rules.

Also one month notice and 2 months salary is not eligible .

You give them a notice along.with a cheque of 3 months salary to relieve you on immediate effect the company has relieve you under agreement.

Shubham Jhajharia
Advocate, Ahmedabad
25514 Answers
179 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

1) You send them a notice stating that you are ready to pay 2 months salary in lieu as money and you have already served 1 month notice period.

2) Than say to them you are free to take action against you. You should not be worry about it as the appointment letter says like that and you are following rules what you have signed the agreement.

3) 1 month notice period served and plus 2 months salary in lieu, that is sufficient.

Ganesh Kadam
Advocate, Pune
12930 Answers
255 Consultations

4.9 on 5.0

1) it is at discretion of company to waive the notice period

2) better serve the 3 months notice period

3) you cannot force company to accept salary in lieu of notice period

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
94725 Answers
7536 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

1. Sine there is clear clause of buying the notice period the employer can not force you to serve full notice period.

2. The threat of taking legal action in your default to serve 3 months notice period is without any basis and hence you can very well ignore this.

3. So if you are in hurry to quit the job then serve one month as you desire and send them an email stating your willingness to pay them 2 months salary and then stop visiting their place.

4 if they agree then pay them . Else join in other company.

Devajyoti Barman
Advocate, Kolkata
22824 Answers
488 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

You need to give intimation in writing to the HR of the payment in lieu of notice that you can not continue after 1 month due to the commitment and have receiving of the letter for your record and reference to submit in next organization.

Vimlesh Prasad Mishra
Advocate, Lucknow
6852 Answers
23 Consultations

4.9 on 5.0

The final discretion has been left with the company, whether or not they accept your offer of buying out the notice period.

Having said the above, write an email to them, informing them of your last working day and offering them to pay in lieu of the remaining notice period. Leave thereafter, even if they do not release you and insist you to serve during the entire notice period.

Vibhanshu Srivastava
Advocate, Lucknow
9600 Answers
303 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

terms of contract are sacrosanct

2) your appointment letter mentions that you have to give 3 months notice

3) company can sue you for damages if you fail to serve the notice period

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
94725 Answers
7536 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

in case you neither pay nor serve the period of notice they can sue you for the damages.

where is the difficulty you are ready to pay your contract term clearly mentions two procedure for regination:

!) Your Services can be terminated on 3 months notice in writing on either side or at discretion of the management

2) By payment of salary in lieu there of.

so give them a notice pay the salary intimated the appointing authority and HR(serve them notice copy too), company shall give you relieving documents and experience certificate, there is no difficulty in case they don't it is breach and you can sue fo damages

Shubham Jhajharia
Advocate, Ahmedabad
25514 Answers
179 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

1. First negotiate with your next employer whether they will, accept your joining with out the release order from your present employer or not.

2. Presently, employers are accepting reporting of employees without release letter from earlier Company provided the employee has submitted resignation as per the employment terms of the earlier company.

3. If your new employer is ready to accept your joining with out demanding the release order issued by your current employer, then remit 2 months basic salary to the account of your present employer in lieu of the balance notice period and then join the new employment.

4. No legal action to be taken by your present employer will stand against you if you pay the salary for the balance notice period in lieu of the said balance notice period.

Krishna Kishore Ganguly
Advocate, Kolkata
27219 Answers
726 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

1. No, your matter does not come under Specific Relief Act .

2. If you can ensure that your new employer will accept your joining with out asking for release letter from your current employer, then you can leave the present organisation after resigning as per the employment terms for which you have been advised to remit the salary for the balance notice period to your present Company.

Krishna Kishore Ganguly
Advocate, Kolkata
27219 Answers
726 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

If the employment condition permits you to pay the compensation for the notice period, you can invoke that clause in your resignation letter and can express that you are willing and ready to pay compensation in lieu of the un-served notice period.

This communication may be sent to the top management by a registered post and it will certainly invoke some response and impact.

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
84925 Answers
2196 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Can I be guarded by Specific Relief Act where it says that contract of personal service cannot be enforced in court of law. Is a case that damages in money can be used to get relive in my current job??

The said provisions of law is not applicable to this situation.

Dont venture into any such gimmick which may backfire.

you can go through the legal process by first issuing a legal notice and then plan to file a suit as per provisions of law

T Kalaiselvan
Advocate, Vellore
84925 Answers
2196 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

When you had applied for your new job what you have said or written on the point related to notice period? If as per the appointment letter you have said three months then they can appoint you after completing of 3 months.In your current job, If there is any bond which states that if you leave before 3 months you have to pay a certain amount of money and if you are willing to pay so that you can join your new job then the current job's employer cannot take legal steps against you if you pay the said amount.

Moumita Mitra
Advocate, Kolkata
366 Answers
1 Consultation

4.0 on 5.0

1) You can go as per contract act. If they send you Notice letter than we will think of another option.

Ganesh Kadam
Advocate, Pune
12930 Answers
255 Consultations

4.9 on 5.0

If there are other skilled workers available in market then you can get rescued by paying money as damages for personal services which was to be rendered by you. As such the provisions of specific relief act will come to your rescue.

Swarnarka Chowdhury
Advocate, Mysore
1879 Answers
5 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Depends on the scope of your appointment latter and whether or not it is treated to be coming in the ambit/definition of contract of personal service.

Vibhanshu Srivastava
Advocate, Lucknow
9600 Answers
303 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

Such clause if any is not legally viable.

Send them a mail that you are ready to pay 2 month salary and as such you will be leaving the workplace after 1 month

Anilesh Tewari
Advocate, New Delhi
18078 Answers
377 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

If they however proceed to file a case then you can fight it easily and it will be a considerably easy case to fight.

Regards

Anilesh Tewari
Advocate, New Delhi
18078 Answers
377 Consultations

5.0 on 5.0

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