Workplace situations Questions

Situations Your answer Your logic

1. Nilesh is a bus conductor with BEST. He Supervisor is not There should be an
could not report for duty one day due to right. There should opportunity of being
emergency at home. He could not inform be a warning to be heard
his supervisor also .As a result the bus given.
scheduling got disrupted causing a chain Supervisor should
reaction and inconvenience to passengers. try to understand the
The next day Nilesh’s supervisors refused gravity of the
to allow him to resume his work. Instead, situation and then
after asking him to wait for a couple of take a decision.
hours, the supervisor handed him a signed
order dismissing Nilesh from service (the Legal aspect:
order was signed by the supervisor).Is it Leave policy should
alright? be taken into
account
Eg: casual leaves

Industrial
Employment
Standing order Act
should be taken into
account.
2. Prabha has recently joined a factory She can be asked Clear
manufacturing Pharmaceutical product as provided its given in communication
a Chemical engineer. From next week, she the job description must be given.
has been asked to report for duty in the and offer letter.
night shift from 10 pm to 6 am. Can this
be done? Factory Act,
Shops and
Establishment Act

For a long time

under FA women
workers could not
work between 7 PM
and 6 AM because
of high risk.
Recently, some
changes
incorporated in
different states. In
Maharashtra,
women can work
under certain
conditions

3. Balwant is a Grade 1 welder in an Yes, it is alright 8 hours are normal

automobile manufacturing factory at
Manesar. His duty hours are from 8 am to
12 noon and then again from 5 pm to 9
pm. He therefore works for eight hours
during the day. Is this all right?
assuming that it’s a working hours provided
normal parlance of the it’s a part and parcel of
work involved and its the welder job .
agreed in addition to the
labor laws of the land

Check Spread hour ( the

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time between entering

and final exit from
factory )under FA. Here
its 13 hour. Its not
allowed more than 10.5
hour (12 hour max).
This is to ensure work
life balance.

4. The linesmen of an electricity-distribution Management needs to Flash Strikes are not

company in Mumbai have gone on a flash have a dialogue with the
strike. They have not given any notice. lines man and
What action can management take? Does understand their
the government have any role to play in situation to pacify the
this? matter. Yes government
has a role to play to
regulate the situation.
ethical and may cause
genuine hardships and
hence a dialogue is
always a better method
to solve

5. Sakharam is a Peon in an auto-component People have various

plant in Thane. One day due to some Slapping is not a
altercation he slapped his supervisor. solution. He should be
Other than slapping him back, what action reprimanded and given
can the supervisor take against Sakharam? counselling and if it does
not work then further
action should be taken.
temperament and before
reaching a solution a
thought needs to be
given on the situation

6. Mr. Paranjpe is the Branch manager of a Yes, timings can be Organizations need to
PSU bank at Vikhroli. The normal office changed if higher adapt to increased
timing for the staff is from 10 am to 5 pm management agrees and competitions or perish
with a 30 minute lunch break .The bank adequate compensation
stops all public dealings after 2 pm. both monetary and non-
However with the increased competition monetary are given and
in the banking sector, all the new banks employees are agreeing
have staggered working hours from 9 am to the same. Else shifts
to 9 pm. Mr. Paranjpe wants to change the should be introduced.
timings in his bank also as otherwise ,he
will lose all his business. Can timings be
changed? How?

7. Can an employer ask an employee, who is Yes he can ask. On the The terms of the contract
on a fixed term contract, to leave after he other side if the need have stipulated the
completes his term? arises his tenure can be duration of his term
increased.
8. The workers at a major Engineering firm Have a word with the Compensation should be
in Mulund are very agitated regarding higher management and given on time as it’s the
delays in the payment of their wages. get the management get basic need of any worker
Though they get their salaries every resolve at the earliest. If and should not be
month, the payment sometimes gets not then go for a legal delayed constantly.
delayed beyond 10-`15 days. The workers recourse.
are not sure when they will receive their
salaries. Can they do anything about it Payment of Wages Act
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(other than going on strike)? Do they have

a legal remedy?

9. V.Subramanyam, Charge man Grade iii, at Yes, he is entitled for Safety of workers cannot
a Steel factory at Jamshedpur, while other compensation as a be compromised.
supervising pouring of hot metal into vital organ has been
ladles, suffered serious burn injuries when damaged during the
the molten metal accidentally spilled over course of the work in
the floor. One such metal fragment both monetary and non-
pierced one of his eyes causing complete monetary
damage to vision in the eye.
Subramanyam was given alternative
employment by the same employer
without any loss in salary. Do you think
he is entitled to any other compensation?

10. An Aluminium manufacturing unit in Should be given notice Abrupt termination of

Renukoot, UP, has around 1000 period and/or given jobs is not warranted and
permanent employees . But it also alternative job so as for labor laws and moral
employs labours on contract for unloading them to sustain a normal ethics should be
of their raw materials from the railway living reflected before taking a
wagons. These workers have been decision.
working at the plant for the last nine
years, although they are on the rolls of a
contractor. Can the services of these
workers be terminated summarily, if the
unit decides on automation?