{"id":364401,"date":"2020-07-24T10:14:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=364401"},"modified":"2020-07-24T10:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:55:18","slug":"pay-cuts-can-trigger-desperate-extreme-acts-air-india-pilots-to-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pay-cuts-can-trigger-desperate-extreme-acts-air-india-pilots-to-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay cuts can trigger &#8216;desperate, extreme acts&#8217;: Air India pilots to govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air India\u2019s (AI\u2019s) seniormost pilots in a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri warned that \u201cmassive forced paycuts\u201d and compulsory leave without pay (LWP) schemes could have a \u201cpotentially disastrous psychological impact\u201d on employees. <\/p>\n<p>Saying that 60 pilots who operated repatriation flights under the government\u2019s Vande Bharat Mission had been infected by the virus, the pilots said employees may be forced to challenge the decision in court, which might be a hurdle for the privatisation process. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA rising stack of litigations and financial liabilities arising out of pending financial dues owed to employees could potentially destroy our organisation\u2019s future health, and would be unfairly transferred to any prospective buyer,\u201d the Executive Pilots Association wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air India\u2019s (AI\u2019s) seniormost pilots in a letter to Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri warned that \u201cmassive forced paycuts\u201d and compulsory leave without pay (LWP) schemes could have a \u201cpotentially disastrous psychological impact\u201d on employees. Saying that 60 pilots who operated repatriation flights under the government\u2019s Vande Bharat Mission had been infected by the virus, the pilots said employees may be forced to challenge the decision in court, which might be a hurdle for the privatisation process. \u201cA rising stack of litigations and financial liabilities arising out of pending financial dues owed to employees could potentially destroy our organisation\u2019s [&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-364401","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\/364401","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=364401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}