{"id":454,"date":"2006-03-27T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2006\/03\/27\/the-akbarallys-story\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T05:56:20","slug":"the-akbarallys-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/classic\/200603\/the-akbarallys-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Akbarallys story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arzan pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/mumbai.metblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/unfair_dismissal_the_akbarally.phtml\">this post<\/a> on the newly launched Mumbai Metblogs, talking of the plight of some Akbarallys employees who one day found that they did not have jobs any more, because the branch shut shop. <\/p>\n<p>This is a fairly common story. I have some personal experience of that. In 1993, I went home from my hostel for the weekend, to find that my mother no longer had a job as her company had shut down.  It was entirely expected &#8211; the company had been in trouble for years before that, but it was still a shock when it happened. <\/p>\n<p>The labour laws did not help. The unions could not help, the courts would not help. I&#8217;ve explained why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/2005\/07\/30\/more-on-gurgaon\/\">here.<\/a>  Labour laws and the courts matter only if you care to keep your company running.  <\/p>\n<p>My mom got a new job some eight months later. She&#8217;s still working there, but hopefully not for long. The company has sold out its land and a shopping mall will come up in its place&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arzan pointed me to this post on the newly launched Mumbai Metblogs, talking of the plight of some Akbarallys employees who one day found that they did not have jobs any more, because the branch shut shop. This is a fairly common story. I have some personal experience of that. In 1993, I went home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}