What you are talking about is a salary renegotiation, i.e. the employer offering the employee a new contract at a lower salary for work to be performed in the f

What you are talking about is a salary renegotiation, i.e. the employer offering the employee a new contract at a lower salary for work to be performed in the future. What had alleged happened in the story is salary theft, i.e. the employer stealing part of the employee's remuneration for work already performed in the past. I can't speak to India's legal system, but if this had happened in the US then it would be a federal crime under the Fair Labor Standards Act.