The Madras High Court on Monday restrained Foxconn India Private Limited from moving any of the machinery from its plant at Sriperumbudur, after some of its employees moved the court seeking a direction to the State government not to approve its request for the closure of the company.
Passing interim orders on a petition by four of its employees, Justice C.S. Karnan ordered that status quo be maintained in the matter and the State government should not give any permission as the case was pending before the court.
Petitioners K. Udhayakumar, N. Sathishkumar, V. Jayakumar, E. Prakash and P.S. Baskaran, who were recruited by the company as trainee operators at various points of time, submitted that the company was closed on February 10 without following mandatory procedures contemplated under the Industrial Disputes Act.
Though several attempts by officials for conciliation proceedings failed, a decision was taken at a meeting on February 8 to get the employees employment with all monetary and service benefits from the company.
Observing that a notice was issued by the company to petitioners to receive the severance compensation, the petitioners claimed that they were retrenched by the company without providing any opportunity and also against provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act.
The petitioners claimed that the company was functioning with the same management in other places at Sunguwar Chatiram in Kancheepuram district and at Tada in Andhra Pradesh.
Company restrained from moving machinery from Sriperumbudur plant
