Employees of Air India’s technical arm AIESL launch nationwide protest against salary cut

There has been a huge resentment among Aircraft Maintenance Engineers/Service Engineers of AI Engineering Services Limited (AIESL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air India limited, over recent salary cuts exclusively for the engineers while the rest of the staff of Air India and other subsidiaries have been spared of this additional salary cut.

This salary cut of 20 per cent on gross salary has been implemented as AIESL has failed to timely deposit statutory dues of provident fund and income tax.

Though these statutory dues have already been deposited by each and every employee from their salaries every month and this is a clear case of diversion of funds. And now again, the AIESL is cutting 20 per cent of gross salaries from the AIESL employees in order to deposit these funds.