MUMBAI: In a relief for over 400 employees of SpiceJet who were terminated from services, Justice R V Ghuge of Bombay high court directed the airline in an interim order that no new contractual employees or personnel be deployed by any agency till February 8. Further, SpiceJet has been asked to submit a list of all the employees on February 5 who were so appointed under the fixed-term contract basis for the last 2-10 years so that the work would be provided to them on a seniority basis and, in any case, without employing contract workers in their place. The airline had earlier this month challenged the industrial tribunal order.
The HC heard advocates Mahesh Shukla for SpiceJet and advocate Jaiprakash Sawant for the All India SpiceJet Staff and Employees Association for “quite some time”, according to the order. The association submitted that the workmen were terminated from January 1 despite a status quo order passed by the Central Government Industrial Tribunal, Mumbai on December 29.
The airline management said the workmen were on fixed-term contracts and they have not been terminated but their term of employment expired.
