Noida: 'Sacked without notice', hundreds of workers go on rampage at phone-making unit

NOIDA: Hundreds of employees of a Chinese smartphone production facility here resorted to violence on Thursday after around 200 of them had been "sacked without notice", officials said.


Around 1,200 workers of the Hipad Technology India, which makes Xiaomi and Oppo telephones, went on a rampage pelting stones on the construction and barging into the power in Sector 63, they said.

However, the corporate had no legitimate reaction until the time the file was filed.

Police power was deployed on the site whilst senior officials, including Superintendent of Police, Noida City, Sudha Singh, reached there to evaluate the location.

Singh said police had been alerted about the violence breaking out on the manufacturing unit, underneath Phase three police station limits, around 10am and right away reached the spot.

"We got to know that several employees had resorted to violence after they were 'sacked' by their office without any notice," she said.

Singh said no formal grievance were lodged through the corporate until the afternoon, whilst police had been probing the info.

However, a police legitimate, who did not wish to be named, said three to 4 other people had been picked up for questioning over their alleged involvement in the violence.

A supply of the corporate said that they had intimidated the seller - workers' contractor - upfront about the adjustments.

"Also, it is clearly mentioned in the terms and conditions of the contract that the company can reduce the number of workers without notice," the supply said.

The Labour Department officials who reached the unit in the afternoon said it gave the look to be a case of "miscommunication" at the corporate's section.

"Due to scarcity of raw subject material, the corporate had asked the distributors to inform those other people to not come for paintings from Monday. But they persevered to come back to workplace and the control nowadays barred them from punching in (biometric entry).

"The supplier had most likely not informed the workers for this reason they stored coming to paintings which it seems that ended in this misunderstanding. The workplace asked them to leave the premises and the workers said they were not informed about the decision and had been being sacked for this reason they resorted to violence," Assistant Labour Commissioner Harish Chandra Singh advised PTI.

The distributors were not to be had on the site for explanation at the factor, Singh added.

He said the corporate claimed that it has engaged a neighbouring company where it wanted to train those employees, however due to power-related issues that could not happen right away.

"The corporate said they did not directly tell the workers about the coaching programme however advised this to the seller," Singh said.

Meanwhile, a non-public security guard on the unit described that the morning shift workers had arrived at eight am for paintings and within two hours the rampage had begun.

"They went inside of and most often through eight.30am all of them started working at the assembly line. But greater than one thousand workers had accumulated outdoor the principle construction around 9.45am and chaos ensued," the guard said.

He additionally claimed that after the violence a number of employees fled the construction with a number of cell phones and different units from the construction.