Legal Question in Employment Law in India
An Employee workind with a pvt ltd company in India,met with an accident while on Duty & died during treatmentThe employer paid most of the dues to deceased's wife but hold back about rs 1 lacs towards payment of Bonus & Leave Encashment of Deceased.The Wife asked the Employer about this,the employer showed a list of some instruments being issued to Employee & asked the instruments or their cost back from us(The cost was claimed to be Rs 1 lacs Plus).The wife had no knowledge of the tools/instruments being issued to his husband.the employee showed records of 7 tools being issue in employee name out of which 3 are believed to be received by employee(signed by him),while 4 tools have no receiving of employee.
the question is,if the wife is legally liable to pay/ find and return the tools the Employer is asking for.The family has no knowledge of any such knowledge of Tools & instruments & can the Employer blackmail us like this(as he is showing us receiving of the 3 tools by deceased employee).What is the remedy for this?
2 Answer from Attorneys
U can file civil suit and may file application in labour court
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