Mumbai: Private carrier SpiceJet has reinstated 60 of the 463 employees who were laid off following the expiry of their contracts on December 31, 2021. The airline had approached the Bombay high court challenging an industrial court order which had directed it to reinstate all the employees as their contracts were ongoing and were not limited by time. The HC, however, upheld the industrial court order and directed the airline to reinstate the employees.
On March 23, the single judge bench of justice A S Gadkari while hearing the petition filed by the Chairman & Managing Director of Spice Jet Ltd and another was informed by advocates Kiran Bapat and Niraj Prajapati that as per the January 19 directions of the HC an affidavit had been filed enumerating the list of employees who could join services from April 1.
The court had on January 19 said, “It would be appropriate for the petitioner management to tender a list of their workmen, who have been termed as fixed-term contractual employees, who can be offered work today.”
