While the company earlier said it would suspend production from November 1, it announced `No production day' from Friday until October 31 since the last batch of orders was completed on Thursday itself.
"From the union, we made a request that the plant be kept open till some settlement is arrived at. On Friday , though there will be no production, workers will come to receive Diwali bonus (though it is credited directly to the bank)," sources said.
"They are almost bringing down the shutters," said G Haridas, 25, an operator at the plant. "Our lives are falling apart."
The factory , assets of which were frozen, will automatically move to the Central Board of Direct Taxes as Nokia only had an operating licence after the Kancheepuram tahsildar attached it due to non-payment of taxes, as ordered by CBDT.
In a global transaction, Nokia announced sale of its handset business, including the Sriperumbudur plant, to Microsoft for 5.4 billion last year. Though the deal dead line was March 31, it was extended to April 2014. Several cases and tax disputes surfaced after the deal with Microsoft was announced, leaving the Sriperumbudur plant out of the deal. Nokia ran the plant as a contract manufacturer for Microsoft for one year.
Only 851 employees continue on the rolls of Nokia. A key meeting with the Tamil Nadu assistant commissioner of labour is scheduled for October 20 to decide on separation formalities, including the settlement that must be paid to them, it is learnt.
Nokia is said to be willing to pay full salaries to workmen post November 1 too, with the hope of an "amicable settlement with minimum impact," sources said.
"As a parting shot, notwithstanding all the gloom the factory witnessed over the past year, the company agreed to a 20% Diwali bonus like last year. "Each employee will get around Rs 8,400 as bonus," union sources said.
Established in 2006 on a 200-acre site, Nokia prided itself on the `Made for India' Nokia 1100 launch and slowly ramped up production to make the plant the largest single location plant for mobile handsets globally .Along with half a dozen component suppliers, the Nokia SEZ in Sriperumbudur, 45km from Chennai, employed more than 31,000 people directly and provided hundreds of indirect jobs.
The special economic zone (SEZ) became a hotbed for electronics manufacturing services (EMS) with a number of component suppliers setting up shop. In no time, the area was a beehive of activity as Nokia kept boxing and shipping phones from here to the world. Nine years down the line, the same facility faces imminent closure.
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