Overview

• Workers at Samsung's Sriperumbudur plant will receive a ₹9,000 salary hike in 2025–26, followed by ₹4,500 each in the next two years, totaling ₹18,000 over three years.
• Additional benefits include experience-based wage hikes, special promotions for long-serving employees, enhanced leave policies, and air-conditioned transport.
• The agreement concludes a nearly year-long labor dispute, which included a 37-day strike in 2024 and renewed unrest in early 2025 over suspensions.
• The settlement was achieved after over 30 rounds of negotiations, facilitated by Tamil Nadu's Labour Minister and Chief Minister M. K. Stalin.
• An inquiry into 25 suspended workers remains ongoing, with government directives for the company to expedite the process.