1) you are not bound to serve the 3 month notice period as your appointment letter does not contain such a clause

2) you can in reply mention that you have never signed any document wherein notice period mentioned is of 3 months

3) company cannot retain your PF money .Get a PF withdrawal form, fill it and submit the same directly to the regional Provident Fund Office.

4) however company would not issue you experience letter and relieving letter if you dont serve the notice period as desired by the company

A. Once the employee joined with particular designation for the company that have bounden duty to issue Appointment Order at the time of joining. There must be a terms and conditions and formal deciple code for the employee alongwith notice period towards the resignation.

B. In your case, no appointment order issued by the company. However, have you received any offer letter? was there any terms and conditions? Have you received company policy through mail? If yes, what is there in the policy? don't worry, employer cannot insist to serve 3 month notice in the absence of contract. Moreover, they don't have right to hold your PF and relieving letter. You send a mail by narrating all the facts pertaining to non issue of appointment order and mention your last working day. If you get any trouble from them, issue a legal notice to the Reporting Manager, HR and Director of the Company.

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if there is no appointment letter or offer letter, then your services are deemed to be temporary in eyes of labour law.

Temporary employees are eligible for PF and leave amount.

Temporary employees need not serve notice period as their jobs are temporary in nature.

Issue notices to your employer.

If there is no contract of employment signed by you which prescribes a notice period of 3 months then you are unbound to serve the notice period required by the employer, but it is likely that your employer will then withhold your salary and other dues. The choice for you is to either accede to the demand of the employer to serve the notice period or be prepared for a legal battle to recover your dues which may be withheld.

You have already communicated your decision to resign the job and also offered to give one month notice.

Since you have not been issued with offer letter or you are aware of the terms and conditions of your employment, even this notice period is not necessary.

However, since your employer has asked you to serve three months notice period, you may write back stating that you were never given employment offer letter nor the salary slip nor you are made aware of the employment terms and conditions by which you are bound, hence the present condition imposed by the employer is not acceptable to you and you may also demand your relieving letter on the date of scheduled departure from the company and also your F&F to be settled on the the last date of working.

If the company is not acceding to your request you may issue a legal notice demanding the reliefs after which you can initiate legal action through labor law.

Consult a labor law practicing lawyer in the local and take his advise on all such further issues.