{"id":350642,"date":"2020-05-11T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=350642"},"modified":"2020-05-11T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T06:40:20","slug":"provide-financial-support-to-air-india-to-clear-wage-backlog-pilot-unions-to-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/provide-financial-support-to-air-india-to-clear-wage-backlog-pilot-unions-to-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Provide financial support to Air India to clear wage backlog: Pilot unions to government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: 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>MUMBAI: 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350642","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}