Mumbai: Around 565 remaining families at Air India’s four staff colonies in Kalina, who had earlier been ordered to vacate their company-allotted houses by September 24, have been given relief from dispossession till October 28 by the Bombay High Court (HC), via an order dated September 29.
“We make it abundantly clear that beyond 28th October 2022, action may be taken in accordance with law against those employees who fail to vacate the accommodation provided to them by Air India Ltd. in terms with the Housing Allotment Rules,” noted Chief Justice Madhav J Jamdar.
The HC also directed the Central government to take a “fresh decision” on referring the labour department’s failure report — with regard to conciliatory proceedings initiated after the employees’ strike notice in November 2021, when they were first asked to vacate the premises — to the Central Government Industrial Tribunal, by October 12.
