The agony of Private employee due to lack of uniform employee policy

Are you a private employee? Then you must know what are the pain points of private employee? Please read this article.

The ignoble Private Employees

In 1.3 billion citizens’ country like India, approximately 600 to 700 million populations work in private sector. About, 97% jobs are private sector job such as enterprises, IT firms, retails, corporation, factories, agriculture and other unorganized sectors. But the major tax payer and direct contributor to the growth of the country, the private employee sector remained as neglected and unmethodical due to the following reasons.

1. Lack of Uniform Employee Policy: In private sector there is no such standardized employee policy in terms of designation, benefits, insurance, leaves, EPF, gratuity and salary. Each individual company has their own employee policy according to their suitability.Some companies provide EPF, some don’t. Some companies provide one kind of insurance and some provides other kind of insurance. However,the real grindstone is the “key private employee” who always crossed between different company policies as it is not possible for a private employee to stay in one organization till retirement.Therefore, private employees always need to adjust with divergent employee policies and bear the losses while switching other companies.

2. Deficit of Standard Pay Commission and Regularize Appraisal Policy : There is no uniform pay commission and regularize appraisal policy exist for private employees. In private sector the high qualified engineering graduates’ starts their job with Rs.8000 and some are with no payment. According to the study 40 % of private employee gets salary less than a government peon. And also there is no routine wise appraisal system follows in every year.

3. Less Job Security: Private jobs are less secure in nature. In private job, at any time employer can terminate employee. Also in recession period, many private employees are retrenched from the job. Private employee always lives in fear of losing job.

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4. No Fixed time frame: Most of the private employees work 24*7 hours with no O.T. payment.

5. Formal Action, informal future: Private organizations and employees are very formal in nature. Starting from dressing, talking, way of presentation, customer handling and everything is in very precise and structured manner. But the futures of the private employees are not properly shaped and certain.

6. Contract Appointment: Contract mode of appointment, is a big hindrance to the rights of employees. Now in private sectors more employees are recruited on basis of a fixed time contract. A contract employee gets low wages as compared to regular employee. After the contract period is over, the employer terminates the contract. Contract appointment, now a day’s become use and throw of skill of employee.

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7. More age, more harassment: In private sector employees, above age of 50, are very rarely entertained. In every 5 to 6 year there is retrenchment scenario in private sector where high salaried senior employees are always targeted.Rather younger employees are always preferred in private companies. Therefore it is always difficult to work in private companies after age of 50.

8. Leave Structure: There is no proper leave structure for private employees.

9. Notice Period: There is a procedure of relieving letter, which is provided by the employer after the successful completion of notice period. There is no uniformity on the notice period policy between the companies. Normally most of the companies create issues to relieve employees by keeping some personal reasons behind it. In some cases employees also create such issues and do not follow the procedure in an ethical way. To resolve the issues & regulate the rule as per labor law, there should be one uniform notice period policy around all the companies.

10. Benefits: There is no such provision and policies where private employees can take some privileges.

Now finally the time has arrived to “restructure the private employee policy”, where 97 % of working population work. A standard uniform “Private organization Employee Policy” is required to address the basic need of private employees. If this huge employees needs are addressed properly then Government can have both tax benefits and proper resource benefits. A unique policy will not only give prosperity to employees but also to employer in terms of many labor and legal procedure. So,now the time has come where every private employee should demand to be recognized in Government not only as a tax contributor but also as a beneficiary of Government.

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