The Legal actions against employee who abscond in notice period
In India, as far as the notice period is concerned as per the Industrial Act an employee has a right to resign from the job at any time. A legal action a company can take only in case that due to employee’s resignation and the employee is absconding has led to an extra ordinary loss to the company. If such loss is caused then the company will approach the civil court. As absconding means breach of contract. It will be better to go through the terms and conditions mentioned in the employment agreement. As you may have a clause to buy back your notice period. If you are in such need to leave the job then buy back your notice period. If an employee has taken away valuable belongings of a company then a company can file a criminal case as well as per S.379, S.419, S.420 of IPC. If it is an IT company then they are very strict with the background check of an employee. So if you will join a new company then they will definitely outsource the background check to their appointed company . Duri