In an absconding case of an employee, what legal actions can an HR person take from the employer point of view in India?
DISCLAIMER: ABSCONDING IS NOT TO BE DONE AND THIS POST IN NO WAY IS HELPING YOU TO TAKE ACTIONS ACCORDINGLY. PLEASE TREAT THIS ONLY AS SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND I AM NOT LIABLE FOR ANY ACTIONS TAKEN HEREWITH.HR cannot sue you or file a court case until and unless you have stolen some information/data or intellectual property which is not to be shared in public domain (remember you signed a contract/bond)Actions can be taken as below:Step 1- HR will try to reach out to you on your phone no.s (cell, landline, family members phone no., any emergency contacts you have shared during joining). This follow up can be done for various durations- days to weeks (normally not more than 2 weeks). Along with this various emails will be sent to you on your personal mail ID. HR will also talk to your friends in office, colleagues etc. (investigation!), you will become a center of gossip in office for few days :PStep 2- In case HR is unable to catch hold of you through any of the above, you will be declared as absconding in company records and your employment will be terminated with immediate effect.Step 3- You will not be provided with any relieving letter/mail, your salary from the date of absconding (depending on where it falls in pay cycle) will not be processed, no full & final settlement will be provided. All your access will be cancelled (including removal of access on your laptop from company server, VPN etc., in case you have taken the laptop with you).Step 4- In case company is using tools like SAP etc, they can share the same information with other companies and you can be blacklisted in market. HR's do share information across industry specially in MNC's. Next company can easily find out your past actions accordingly until and unless you are getting into your own business of course!P.S.- ABSCONDING is highly UNETHICAL and should be avoided, as it causes a lot of pain to the HR team and company who have invested and trusted in you.
Somebody stole my wallet at work... Can I hold my employer responsible?
Things I would consider doing. Immediately file a police report, contact all credit card companies and get duplicate cards, get a duplicate license and other ID cards. This will be needed if, in the future, you become a victim of identity theft. Next, make sure all the other employees know that your purse was stolen, and that there are NO cameras in the room. Many of them may already know about the cameras, don't be surprised. If you want to try small claims court, go ahead. I don't think you have much of a case, but who knows? Especially if you don't mind being fired. In the future, leave your valuables that you don't absolutely need at home. NEVER carry your social security card around, except when you are applying for a new job.
Is it illegal or simply bad practice for a company to email you your Social Security number for benefits purposes?
Wow, obviously none of you guys work in web security that’s for sure. It would be insanely simple for a person or botnet to hack your email password or server password and run a simple regular expression for anything that matches social security numbers. You could write a script to do it yourself in less then 3 minutes. There are also numerous points that the email’s data could be snatched from to run this on. Open / public wifi, someone within a protected wifi’s network, your email server, your email account itself, the sender’s email account, and their server, your personal outlook data file, the sender’s outlook data file, bluetooth hack on your phone, and probably a hundred other ways we haven’t even thought of yet.As for it being illegal it depends on the state. While insanely lax compared to what it should be some states have made this practice illegal (california off the top of my head) but for the most part it’s perfectly legal to do but definitely shouldn’t be. And for anyone out there who thinks it’s unlikely that your SSN won’t be snatched up by people at jobs and other “trusted institutions” just remember that all it takes is one meth head rifling through a stack of old applications.All that being said it’s your credit and your identity so it boils down to how much you care.
What should I do to my Employee we found now that she was a felon 4,5 years ago?
Let me address the posting on yelp. If it appears, contact an attorney so he can direct yelp to take it down or become part of a lawsuit that your office will file for libel. I would ask your attorney to see what it would take to get the information regarding who is making these posts. Yelp, as do all websites, have logs and they can tell by looking in those logs the IP address of the person that made the post. The IP address will then give you the name of that persons ISP and the ISP will have logs from their DHCP servers to tell them which one of their customers was issued that IP address. The employee certainly may have a felony conviction on her record but that record should not be damaging your business. Embezzlement usually means stealing money from your employer. Unless you have reason to think that she might steal someones identity I don't really see much of a relationship. However if she were to do so and your patient could prove that you were aware of her record you might be in a position to be sued for damages. Before jumping to any conclusions, I would have a background check done. Who ever reported this woman may have made a very serious error and only found someone that had the same name. I also find it strange that her ex-employer would divulge such information since the only thing they are allowed to give is the dates that a person worked there , their job duties and their salary. If you find it true that the woman has a felony in her past, you might be well advised to contact an attorney that specializes in labor laws to see how you should proceed.
Independence Receivables Corp. suing me?
I recieved a letter from the law office that the Independence Receivables Corp. is suing me for a sum of money for a dept. The letter said that the law office is ready to help me out in that. However, I do not know what depd they are talking about. I am 20 years old, a college student. I do not own a credit card, my bank account is fine. I pay my bills on time. Is it a scam?
Is it legal to steal email address from your work?
It is illegal to steal lists of email addresses (especially patient lists held by medical professionals). They are property like anything else. However, it is not illegal to sell them unless you agree not to in a privacy policy. So the scene looks like this: 1. The dentists office probably could, and should, sue that individual (if they were stolen) 2. Patient contact information is usually confidential and I imagine you have some privacy rights that the dentist is responsible for. The difficulty is in proving you were harmed (except nominally) by the breach. However, perhaps by putting pressure (perhaps by lawsuit) on the dentist he would sue the former employee to enjoin the use of the list to prevent any future harm/annoyance. (If you are serious about this, talk to an attorney) Probably not much you can do in the end and the legal struggle would be more painful than profitable so it would be better to just put the Realtor on the spam list and find a new, more trustworthy dentist office.
Is it illegal to poison your own food if your co-worker is going to steal?
Your logic breaks down when you say you're going to poison your food and then put it in the fridge because you plan to eat it for lunch. Yes, you are intentionally poisoning food that you suspect someone else will eat, therefore you're guilty of assault, attempted murder or whatever they charge you with. I'd love to see you argue in court that you intended to eat the food you poisoned.