{"id":356011,"date":"2020-06-08T10:27:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T04:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=356011"},"modified":"2020-06-08T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T04:57:41","slug":"goair-fires-pilot-over-hate-tweet-employee-says-mistaken-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/goair-fires-pilot-over-hate-tweet-employee-says-mistaken-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"GoAir fires pilot over hate tweet, employee says &#8216;mistaken identity&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budget airline GoAir has terminated the services of a trainee pilot over hate tweets allegedly from an account by his name, but now the employee has come out and said that he has been wrongfully terminated, as it was a tweet by another person of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>A Twitter account of Asif Khan with the id &#8216;@MdAsif35534489&#8217;, posted objectionable and hateful comments last week following which there was an uproar on social media.<\/p>\n<p>On June 4, Go Air tweeted: &#8220;GoAir has zero tolerance policy and it is mandatory for all GoAir employees to comply with the company&#8217;s employment rules, regulations and policies, including social media behaviour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget airline GoAir has terminated the services of a trainee pilot over hate tweets allegedly from an account by his name, but now the employee has come out and said that he has been wrongfully terminated, as it was a tweet by another person of the same name. A Twitter account of Asif Khan with the id &#8216;@MdAsif35534489&#8217;, posted objectionable and hateful comments last week following which there was an uproar on social media. On June 4, Go Air tweeted: &#8220;GoAir has zero tolerance policy and it is mandatory for all GoAir employees to comply with the company&#8217;s employment rules, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356011","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}