The transfer comes at a time when the federal government is making an attempt to dump the airline (File)
New Delhi:
In a transfer meant to scale back its variety of staff, the board of Air India has allowed the airline’s Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) to suggest {that a} non-performing workers member be compulsorily despatched on depart with out pay for a interval of as much as 5 years.
Employees can be assessed by a board within the following classes: Suitability, effectivity, competence, high quality of efficiency, well being of the worker, occasion of non-availability of the worker for obligation previously because of in poor health well being or in any other case and redundancy.
Air India CMD Rajiv Bansal can now ship staff on depart with out pay “for six months or for a period of two years extendable upto five years,” an official order mentioned on Tuesday.
The departmental heads within the headquarter in addition to regional administrators are required to evaluate every worker “on the above mentioned factors and identify the cases where option of compulsory LWP can be exercised”, the order mentioned.
“Names of such employees need to be forwarded to the General Manager (Personnel) in headquarter for obtaining necessary approval of CMD,” it added.
The transfer comes at a time when the federal government is making an attempt to dump the airline, a course of which has been delayed due to the outbreak of coronavirus.
The aviation sector has been badly hit as a consequence of journey restrictions in India and different international locations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. All airways in India have taken up cost-cutting measures corresponding to pay cuts and shedding staff.
India resumed home passenger flights from May 25 after a niche of two months because of the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
However, the airways have been allowed to function solely a most of 45 per cent of their pre-COVID home flights. Occupancy charge in Indian home flights has been round 50-60 per cent since May 25.
International passenger flights which have been suspended since March 23, will keep banned until at the least July 31.
(With inputs from PTI)
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