It has become common practice for employers at least here in India to keep original college degrees of employees as insurance of their continued employment. As a global and human rights issue, this seems very unfair to the employee. Many multinational companies and even hospitals request this form of blackmailing the employee and even demand from them money if they depart.
Since many companies and institutions are doing business globally, they should be bound by some international rules of business and law that protect the employees. There might be many reasons why an employee might want to leave such a hostile work environment or unforseeable long hours as well all sorts of other on the job problems. To take the employee’s cerificates and prevent them from further employment seems to be a cruel and unjust way to keep an employee that may actually lead to decreased motivation to do the work.
If the employee likes the work, the work environment, the pay, and other things associated with the job, there is no reason he or she would want to leave. Do the employers know they will make the work environment difficult beforehand and force the employee to leave? What do they do with the certificates? May be they might even sell them to their friends and make money.
After enduring many years of education, it seems unfair that an individual should surrender their precious certificates to people who don’t really care about them. Copies should be enough but it seems employers want some sort of addition blackmailing power to control the helpless employee. I wonder if this happens in other countries?
Tags: certificates, degrees, employee blackmail, employee rights, employers
