“The law of the land is above Amazon policies,” Harpreet Singh Saluja, President, NITES said in a mail to The HinduAlso read |Amazon CEO says layoffs will extend into next yearAmazon has recently sent details of a voluntary separation programme (VSP) to its employees in India asking them to voluntarily quit the company if they want to avail the programme’s benefits.Employees not participating in it will be let gone out without any benefits if they are part of a workforce optimisation programme, Amazon said in an internal communication seen by The Hindu.Then the appropriate government authority will decide whether the layoff can be permitted or not after hearing both the parties, Saluja said in the letter seen by The Hindu.A lay-off is a condition where the employers are constrained to deny work to their workforce owing to conditions that bring forth a temporary inability to keep their business going which is clearly not a scenario in Amazon’s case.It has clearly violated the existing provisions of Indian labour laws which aim at protecting the worker’s rights, the letter noted."