SC asks Jet Airways to reinstate 169 workers with back wages

New Delhi: In a judgement that will have implications for the resolution of bankrupt Jet Airways, the Supreme Court has asked the grounded airline to reinstate its 169 workers with full back wages.

While quashing the orders of the Bombay High Court and the Central Government Industrial Tribunal that ruled to the contrary, a bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Sanjay Karol said the provisions of the Bombay Model Standing Order for workmen could not have been waived by the debt-laden carrier through fixed-term contracts and the workers were entitled to all the benefits.