{"id":391711,"date":"2020-12-26T11:17:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T05:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391711"},"modified":"2020-12-26T12:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T06:47:25","slug":"air-india-pilots-reject-5-paycut-reversal-ask-to-donate-it-for-building-new-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-pilots-reject-5-paycut-reversal-ask-to-donate-it-for-building-new-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India pilots reject 5% paycut reversal; ask to donate it for building new Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Air India (AI) pilots have rejected a 5% reversal in their pay cut and asked the management to &#8220;donate&#8221; the funds for building the new Parliament. They have also warned of industrial action unless the paycut is significantly reduced in wake of air traffic beginning to revive.<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;the disproportionate unilateral pay cut imposed on pilots in the name of Covid-19 amounts to a gross reduction up to 58% of our rightful wages, from the month of April 2020&#8230; We have been very patient and have shown a lot of restraint to ensure smooth flight operations,&#8221; the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA, union of erstwhile Indian Airlines&#8217; pilots) has written to AI chairman and managing director Rajiv Bansal on Thursday in a letter titled &#8220;humiliation of frontline workers&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe letter points out that till now 171 AI pilots have tested Covid positive while operating Vande Bharat Mission flights during the pandemic. They have claimed that with air traffic reviving, the pilots were assured of significant reversal of pay cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Air India (AI) pilots have rejected a 5% reversal in their pay cut and asked the management to &#8220;donate&#8221; the funds for building the new Parliament. They have also warned of industrial action unless the paycut is significantly reduced in wake of air traffic beginning to revive. &#8220;&#8230;the disproportionate unilateral pay cut imposed on pilots in the name of Covid-19 amounts to a gross reduction up to 58% of our rightful wages, from the month of April 2020&#8230; We have been very patient and have shown a lot of restraint to ensure smooth flight operations,&#8221; the Indian Commercial [&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-391711","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\/391711","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=391711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}