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      Parle Warning About Potential 8-10k Layoffs Is Not Fake News

      Social media users call Parle's layoff warning 'fake news'. BOOM decodes what exactly the company said.

      By - Mohammed Kudrati |
      Published -  23 Aug 2019 6:49 PM IST
    • Boomlive

      Picture showing Parle G variants

      Parle Products Private Limited's warning that it might have to layoff as many as 8000-10,000 workers if slowing demand and high GST on its value category of biscuits persist, has created a storm on social media.

      Several social media users have accused news outlets of exaggerating the warning while others have outrightly called it 'fake news'.

      Earlier in the week, news reports stated the maker of Parle G biscuits, might have to layoff as many as 8,000 to 10,000 people citing an unfavourable taxation environment and a general economic slowdown. The estimate was attributed to Mayank Shah, product head at Parle.

      The news was cited by many as proof of a slowdown in rural demand and the economy in general.

      However, others disputed the interpretation even citing another news article which stated Parle recorded a 21% jump in its profits at the end of FY18, to show that FMCG company was indeed not in dire straits as claimed.

      Charu Pragya, Bharatiya Janata Party Youth leader, falsely claimed that Parle employs only 4,480 workers and thus potential layoffs of 8,000 to 10,000 people was not plausible.

      But Pragya shared screenshots of Britannia Inc's headcount figures and not Parle's.


      ParleG doesn't even have 10,000 employees.

      Check their Annual Report for 2018-19, they have 4480 employees. How are they planning to lay off 10,000 employees then?

      Jhoot bolne ki hadh hai!#ApniAkalLagao #ParleG pic.twitter.com/KqLLlVm5nj

      — Charu Pragya🇮🇳 (@CharuPragya) August 22, 2019

      The tweet has received more than 3,000 retweets and more than 5,000 likes at the time of publication. It can be found here, and an archived version of the tweet can be found here

      Screenshot of Charu's tweet

      Unlike Parle, Britannia's headcount figure is public as it is a publicly traded company. (Click here to view Britannia's annual report for FY19)


      Snapshot of Britannia's employee count on page 80 of annual report

      What Parle actually said:

      In a telephonic interview with CNBC-TV 18, Mayank Shah said that Parle's headcount stands at around 1 lakh, which the company employ directly and indirectly.



      "Parle directly and indirectly employees about 1 lakh people. We have about 10 of our own manufacturing plants and about 125 odd third-party manufacturing facilities across India."

      The same figure (one lakh workforce) was also reported by Reuters and the Economic Times, among other business publications.

      In the interview to CNBC TV18 Shah also confirmed the 8,000 - 10,000 layoff as a possibility, considering both the taxation regime and the industry slowdown.

      "It should be seen in the context and not out of the context. We have not done that (laid off employees) but might have to do that because of the slowdown. And what is the reason of the slowdown? We have taken a price hike sometime back, and coupled with the slowdown in the industry and demand, you have seen a decline in volume," Mayank Shah said on the call.

      Shah said that lower priced biscuits - at the less than ₹100 per kilo mark - is consumed by middle and lower income sections and was exempted from excise in the previous tax regime. Currently, they attract 18% GST, which the company says is very high. Relatively premium products like rusk is under a slab of 5%, and called for a rationalisation of the GST slabs.

      Shah also said that the demand to reduce GST was only for the lower priced category of biscuits.

      "We have time and again requested government to take cognizance of the situation. Reduce the GST on biscuits which are 100 rupees per kg and below," he said.

      Parle was not immediately reachable for a comment.

      Tags

      BiscuitsBritanniaCNBC TV18Economic SlowdownEconomic TimesEconomicsfeaturedParleParle GReutersbjp
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      Claim :   Parle May Layoff 8000 to 10000 Employees
      Claimed By :  BJP leader Charu Pragya
      Fact Check :  False
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