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Pay cut for Air India employees in May due to strike
Thursday May 31, 2012 07:59:54 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi/Mumbai: Air
India employees will draw less in salaries for the month of May on
account of the ongoing pilots strike that has led the airline to
curtail its international operations, a senior Air India official
said Thursday.
"May is the peak season for any airline. Generally, our employees
production-linked-incentive (PLI) is highest in this season. But
due to the strike, May salaries of majority of our employees in
the operations side is going to tank," the official told IANS from
Mumbai.
According to the official, the employees who are hit hard by the
agitation are the cabin crew (CCs), aircraft assistants (AAs),
engineers and international operations staff.
The official said the employees have not yet received salaries for
March and April. The salary for March was supposed to have been
given by May 15.
"The delay in our two-month old salary is due to the ongoing
pilots strike. As under the new arrangement no industrial dispute
was supposed to have taken place until the airlines' financial
position stabilises."
Inflight service providers say they have been the hardest hit.
"Our CCs and AAs are sitting at home as there is no flight
operation taking place. Our flying hours are down which will hurt
our May salaries," a cabin crew in charge (CCI), who manages the
inflight services, said.
The Air India pilots' strike continued for the 24th day Thursday,
mounting the national carrier's losses to Rs.340 crore.
"We have lost nearly Rs.330 crore on account of ticket
cancellation, unused labour and bulk of Boeing 777 fleet being
grounded. We expect to stabilise our operations and cut the losses
to less than Rs.5 crore a day from June 2," an Air India official
told IANS in New Delhi.
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