Hyderabad: A minor mistake by an IT employee landed his wife and son in several problems. The IT employee failed to update his personal details with the company due to which they are forced to run from pillar to post after his untimely death. Manjunath Goud worked with the software giant IBM for 11 years until recently when he passed away due to cancer in November. He is survived by his wife Lakshmi and an 8-year-old son.
While joining IBM, he specified his mother as his nominee for availing financial benefits. As
only his mother is authorized to avail the benefits offered by the company, Manjunath’s brother-in-law (husband of Manjunath’s sister) is planning to take the entire money leaving the widow and her son to their fate.
Manjunath’s wife Lakshmi, who hails from the Narayanpet district, is a housewife. She is unaware of the legal intricacies and not in possession of any of the documents and details of her husband.
The hapless and innocent woman approached the Telangana Information Technology Association (TITA) Global President Sundeep Kumar Makthala seeking help.
Moved by her ordeal, Sundeep called up TITA member Swathi, an employee of IBM. After a hectic search, she managed to get the details of Manjunath. She consulted the team manager of the GTS team of which Manjunath was a member. Swathi was shocked to know that Manjunath’s brother-in-law was already in touch with the team manager and exerting pressure on them that the whole benefits should be given to them and not his wife.
Manjunath’s wife and family members might come to an understanding as they are likely to hold a discussion very soon at the IBM office. Citing the incident, Sundeep Makthala advised the IT employees to be cautious in updating their nominee details with their companies.
He asked the IT employees not to be reckless in view of the heavy work stress and forget updating personal and family details due to which their whole family could land in trouble. Employees have the option of distributing the benefits among their family members.
Makthala asked them not to ignore the emails sent by their companies requesting them to
update nominee details timely. TITA chief has also appealed to the parents of the deceased techie to look into the issue on humanitarian grounds and share the financial benefits of the techie with his wife and child.
source(NSS)
