Workers of the India’s largest automaker, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd might go on strike again over the unsatisfactory resolution of the issues following the reports of higher payments to some of the worker leaders to make them quit the company.

The company has seen one of the worst labour unrest at its plant in Manesar ever this year resulting in huge looses and slow production. The strike ended on 21 October after a tripartite agreement was reached between the management, the union representatives and the government of Haryana.

There are repots that the company bought-out the union leaders in order to end the strike at the plant. Analysts say that this has brought serious divisions among the labors and it will prevent them from resorting to meaningful activism it the coming future due to lack of leaders.

Maruti Suzuki has said that it has the rights to offer higher than normal severance packages to some of the striking workers, over its full and final settlement with 30 workers involved in the Manesar strike.

The company offering its comments for the first time on the controversial final settlement said that it was reached with the 30 workers, who were under suspension and facing an inquiry, after the intervention of the state government.

The company stressed that the deal reached with the workers in within the ambit of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. The company is being criticized by some after it decided to pay Rs 16 lakh each to union leader Sonu Gujjar and other workers. Gujjar has left the company after receiving his share of the hefty severance package.

The amount is much more than the amount they would have received under a normal severance package or voluntary retirement scheme. Some workers accused the company of trying to break the protest by offering more money to some of the workers.