Fired employees say the edtech startup is not paying them December salaries, while the remaining workers aren’t being allowed to resign.
“They are refusing to accept resignations,” says the person on the other end of the call. “An outright no.”
What are they saying?
“That we’ll not relieve you, nor give you your full and final or relieving letter if you leave now. This has been going on for a few days. It’s like blackmail, things are at a standstill.”
The word blackmail is repeated a couple more times during the conversation, which lasts a few minutes. The person on the phone is a former employee of the California-headquartered and Gurugram-operated edtech startup Camp K12 and is describing the events of …
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