{"id":363253,"date":"2020-07-17T11:21:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363253"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:51:55","slug":"air-india-pilots-ask-3-5-salary-cut-for-bosses-and-60-for-us-how-is-this-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-pilots-ask-3-5-salary-cut-for-bosses-and-60-for-us-how-is-this-justified\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India pilots ask: &#8216;3.5% salary cut for bosses and 60% for us, how is this justified?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to Air India chairman and managing director Rajiv Bansal, the pilots has expressed unwillingness to take the proposed pay cut. Describing the pay cut as &#8216;hilarious&#8217;, the Air India pilots wrote, &#8220;The proposed cut for the pilots is almost 60% of gross emoluments&#8230; the top management has proposed a meager 3.5% cut on its own gross salary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For e.g. the Director Personnel takes a minuscule cut of 4% on gross pay while a Co-pilot, who is paid less than the market, is given a cut of 60%. How is this justified? Doesn&#8217;t this amount to unchecked greed and selfishness?&#8221; the Air India pilots said in their letter to the Rajiv Bansal.<\/p>\n<p>The salary cut has been proposed at a a time when they have not received 70% of their salaries since April this year, the pilots wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to Air India chairman and managing director Rajiv Bansal, the pilots has expressed unwillingness to take the proposed pay cut. Describing the pay cut as &#8216;hilarious&#8217;, the Air India pilots wrote, &#8220;The proposed cut for the pilots is almost 60% of gross emoluments&#8230; the top management has proposed a meager 3.5% cut on its own gross salary.&#8221; &#8220;For e.g. the Director Personnel takes a minuscule cut of 4% on gross pay while a Co-pilot, who is paid less than the market, is given a cut of 60%. How is this justified? Doesn&#8217;t this amount to unchecked greed [&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-363253","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\/363253","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=363253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}