{"id":365729,"date":"2020-07-31T11:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T05:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=365729"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:15:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T05:45:14","slug":"air-india-now-delaying-payment-of-retirement-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-now-delaying-payment-of-retirement-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India now delaying payment of retirement benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: After delaying salaries for many years, cash-strapped Air India is now doing the same with retirement benefits also. Aviation Industry Employees\u2019 Guild, a union of AI staffers, on Wednesday wrote to AI CMD Rajiv Bansal about \u201cdelay in disbursement of retirement dues and benefits.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201c &#8230; While we understand that some delay is possible due to the pandemic, (the same is) causing severe hardships for our recent retirees. Even basic entitlements like provident fund and gratuity which are statutory social security schemes are delayed for no justifiable reasons and in violation of the Gratuity Act and the PF Act,\u201d Guild general secretary George Abraham says in his letter.<br \/>\nAn airline official confirmed that payment of retirement dues is being for some months now.<br \/>\n\u201c &#8230; The situation is more grave as far as Air India employees who have retired from subsidiary companies are concerned,\u201d the letter adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: After delaying salaries for many years, cash-strapped Air India is now doing the same with retirement benefits also. Aviation Industry Employees\u2019 Guild, a union of AI staffers, on Wednesday wrote to AI CMD Rajiv Bansal about \u201cdelay in disbursement of retirement dues and benefits.\u201d \u201c &#8230; While we understand that some delay is possible due to the pandemic, (the same is) causing severe hardships for our recent retirees. Even basic entitlements like provident fund and gratuity which are statutory social security schemes are delayed for no justifiable reasons and in violation of the Gratuity Act and the PF [&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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365729","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=365729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}