Forbes Reviews

First things first; stop illegally operating in India. Everyone involved with Forbes.com U.S. - India operation is aware that it's, by copyright law, not allowed to operate in India as Eureka Forbes already has it, yet it not only continues to do so, but while also completely disregarding the labour and employment laws. Now where to start. I was hired in a senior position by a representative from Forbes (who actually lied and was actually related to a Forbes U.S. employee with 0 qualifications or connections to Forbes), to work for the Forbes.com website and eventually obtain a Forbes employment. Still not entirely sure how we had access to literally the whole of the Forbes backend, though we did, which solidified the idea that Forbes may just be operating here legally. We were told we'd be given proper paperwork, but I might as well have been working for the mafia as no contracts were ever provided to us. We were actually working, throughout the 8 month tenure, for some unknown payroll operator in Mumbai noone had ever heard of or consented to be working for, though it was insisted on that this was only temporary. Looking back at the nature of this whole setup, you can guess what kind if payroll services they offer. Hopefully the law will catch up, but I still need my outstanding pay. I am still waiting for my about 2 months salary which has been illegally held from me due to unlawful and untimely termination outside the probation period, though that's hardly the whole problem if newcomers are reading this. For quick recap, we were made to sign a bond of employment (absolutely illegal in India), given leave policies absolutely in contrast with the labour laws of India, and were unlawfully terminated without the full pay of the tenure released, even though the govt of India makes the severance and leave laws very clear. Can't blame them though, I doubt the "Forbes representative" in charge of us was any more educated than high school. Let's not even get into how plagiarism was encouraged; Forbes will be swimming in copyright lawsuits if someone actually gave a damn about what they're writing about. Half their website is copied, the other half written by contributors with powers to directly publish with no editorial oversight. Though being a bad content platform is not a crime. I'm still awaiting my outstanding payment, though looking at the advertising content standoff and the fact that Forbes US is so desperate to look towards the Indian market and bend legality as its own content market is us absolute shambles, looks like its dying anyway. Not sure if running against the law to exploit gullible employees in other countries is the answer though. New employees, please, always verify your employers. In my case Forbes was illegally operating through an unauthorized, officially unrelated vendor, even though they can't operate in the Indian copyright arena due to the Forbes trademark being used by Eureka Forbes. Especially people looking for jobs around where they're operating in Mumbai. I doubt we can do anything to a giant like Forbes, but we can definitely keep ourselves safe.