NEW DELHI: In an innovation during the unprecedented lockdown, two lawyers replicated the Supreme Court’s three-decade-old PIL concept to suo motu issue legal notice to three software companies warning them of consequences for serving termination notices on many employees and announcing salary cuts for others.
Citing the prime minister’s appeal to employers not to lay off any employee during the lockdown period, advocate Rajesh Inamdar and T C Shaikh sent legal notices to two Pune-based firms and a Gurgaon-based company for issuing termination letters to nearly 100 employees and also announcing salary cuts for others.
Normally, an advocate issues legal notice on behalf
