{"id":363389,"date":"2020-07-17T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T06:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363389"},"modified":"2020-07-17T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T07:45:48","slug":"cost-cutting-has-to-be-done-aviation-minister-on-air-indias-leave-without-pay-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/cost-cutting-has-to-be-done-aviation-minister-on-air-indias-leave-without-pay-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost-cutting has to be done: Aviation minister on Air India\u2019s leave without pay scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equity infusion of Rs 500-600 crore every year is not sustainable and cost-cutting in Air India is necessary, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday, justifying the national carrier\u2019s decision to send certain employees on leave without pay for up to five years.<\/p>\n<p>The minister\u2019s remarks came after TMC MP Derek O\u2019Brien slammed Air India, saying its leave-without-pay scheme violates labour laws and is an \u201cobvious ploy\u201d to protect the top management and sacrifice other workers.<\/p>\n<p>Air India on Thursday said it has started the process of identifying employees, based on various factors like efficiency, health and redundancy, who will be sent on compulsory leave without pay (LWP) for up to five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equity infusion of Rs 500-600 crore every year is not sustainable and cost-cutting in Air India is necessary, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday, justifying the national carrier\u2019s decision to send certain employees on leave without pay for up to five years. The minister\u2019s remarks came after TMC MP Derek O\u2019Brien slammed Air India, saying its leave-without-pay scheme violates labour laws and is an \u201cobvious ploy\u201d to protect the top management and sacrifice other workers. Air India on Thursday said it has started the process of identifying employees, based on various factors like efficiency, health and redundancy, [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363389","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=363389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}