{"id":411480,"date":"2021-04-22T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=411480"},"modified":"2021-04-22T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:52:44","slug":"spicejets-ground-staff-to-go-on-strike-over-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spicejets-ground-staff-to-go-on-strike-over-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"SpiceJet\u2019s ground staff to go on strike over layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Covid\u2019s second wave has hit SpiceJet NSE -2.60 % so badly that the airline said it has been forced to partially outsource its ground handling operations at Mumbai airport to a private company.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the airline has planned to lay off 300 out of the 590-strong staff. These largely comprise loaders and drivers who have been employed for 3 to 15 years on fixed-term contract with SpiceJet to carry out ground handling work like loading\/unloading baggage, and transporting passengers between terminal &amp; aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Covid\u2019s second wave has hit SpiceJet NSE -2.60 % so badly that the airline said it has been forced to partially outsource its ground handling operations at Mumbai airport to a private company. Sources said the airline has planned to lay off 300 out of the 590-strong staff. These largely comprise loaders and drivers who have been employed for 3 to 15 years on fixed-term contract with SpiceJet to carry out ground handling work like loading\/unloading baggage, and transporting passengers between terminal &amp; aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411480","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}