Employees & Job Seekers

Don’t sign your offer letter blind

Decode offer letters, check notice period rules, compute gratuity, and analyse salary structures — free, in plain English, built for Indian employment law.

Four traps inside every Indian offer letter

Most employees sign in 24 hours and spend years untangling what they agreed to.

Offer letters you don’t fully understand

Non-compete, garden leave, clawback, retention bonus, variable pay fine print — all legal, all negotiable, most people sign blind.

Notice period surprises at exit

Your offer says 90 days. The sector average is 30. Your HR says you owe ‘buy-out’. Most of what they claim is not enforceable under Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act.

Opaque salary structures

CTC includes gratuity, notional PF, and ‘special allowance’ that never lands in your hand. The tax impact of structure choices differs by 8–15% in take-home.

Gratuity and full-and-final disputes

Under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972, five years of continuous service earns gratuity within 30 days of exit. HR delays are common and actionable.

Career & employment-law updates

Weekly brief on wage codes, notice-period caselaw, PF/gratuity updates and offer-letter tactics. Written for Indian professionals.

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Frequently asked questions

The questions employees ask us every hiring cycle.

Post-termination non-compete clauses are generally void under Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872. Restraints during employment (including confidentiality and non-solicit of clients/employees) are usually enforceable. Indian courts rarely grant injunctions against an employee’s right to earn a livelihood elsewhere.

Your career. Your leverage.

Know what your offer really says. Know what notice period you actually owe. Know what gratuity you’re owed on exit.