{"id":350448,"date":"2020-05-08T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T06:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350448"},"modified":"2020-05-08T12:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T07:22:30","slug":"provide-financial-support-to-air-india-to-clear-wage-backlog-pilot-unions-to-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/provide-financial-support-to-air-india-to-clear-wage-backlog-pilot-unions-to-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Provide financial support to Air India to clear wage backlog: Pilot unions to govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India&#8217;s pilot unions IPG and ICPA has urged Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, to &#8220;urgently&#8221; provide financial support to the national carrier amid private airlines&#8217; cry for a bailout package in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Air India management has not taken paying wages on time seriously for a long time, but as of today, we have a wage backlog of three months, having not been paid full wages since February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is well before the coronavirus crisis began so reduced cash flow cannot be used as an excuse. Even our basic salary, which is a fraction of our wages, is not released on time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India&#8217;s pilot unions IPG and ICPA has urged Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, to &#8220;urgently&#8221; provide financial support to the national carrier amid private airlines&#8217; cry for a bailout package in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. &#8220;The Air India management has not taken paying wages on time seriously for a long time, but as of today, we have a wage backlog of three months, having not been paid full wages since February. &#8220;This is well before the coronavirus crisis began so reduced cash flow cannot be used as an excuse. Even our basic salary, which is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}