And, now comes a shocker of the treatment of a 58-yr old employee of a Chennai-based media company who has worked for almost 30 years. Informed on the phone that the company's retirement age has been reduced from 60 to 58. In good faith he accepted, and resigned! Questions abound
How could a company reduce the retirement age overnight, without notice? How could the retirement age, fixed by a tripartite agreement including the TN Govt many years ago, be reduced uniliaterally, by one party?
This person had in fact, crossed the age of 58, and so assumed that his time was up. Clearly this amounts to forcing a person out by means of false information. That a media company can run it like a lala ka dukan says much about the nature of media ownership in India.
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