{"id":364392,"date":"2020-07-24T10:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364392"},"modified":"2020-07-24T10:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:53:44","slug":"air-india-staff-salaries-will-be-restored-when-situation-improves-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-staff-salaries-will-be-restored-when-situation-improves-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India staff salaries will be restored when situation improves: Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facing heavy protests from employees, the government on Thursday said that no staffer of the state-owned Air India will be laid off. However, the union of pilots said that five-year leave without pay was as good as retrenchment. <\/p>\n<p>Air India has begun a cost-cutting drive which includes a reduction in salary for pilots and sending around 600 employees on furlough. <\/p>\n<p>on July 7, the airline&#8217;s board approved the scheme of &#8216;Leave Without Pay&#8217; ranging from six months to five years. While the scheme is voluntary, if it doesn\u2019t get a good response from employees, the board has authorised Chairman and Managing Director Rajiv Bansal to forcibly send employees on leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing heavy protests from employees, the government on Thursday said that no staffer of the state-owned Air India will be laid off. However, the union of pilots said that five-year leave without pay was as good as retrenchment. Air India has begun a cost-cutting drive which includes a reduction in salary for pilots and sending around 600 employees on furlough. on July 7, the airline&#8217;s board approved the scheme of &#8216;Leave Without Pay&#8217; ranging from six months to five years. While the scheme is voluntary, if it doesn\u2019t get a good response from employees, the board has authorised Chairman and [&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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364392","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=364392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}