{"id":434776,"date":"2021-09-08T10:08:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T04:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=434776"},"modified":"2021-09-08T11:21:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T05:51:34","slug":"pilots-association-accuses-air-india-of-gender-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pilots-association-accuses-air-india-of-gender-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots\u2019 association accuses Air India of gender discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Commercial Pilots\u2019 Association accused the government\u2019s Air India of actively discriminating against women pilots, in a letter written to Air India Managing Director Rajiv Bansal on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>In the letter, the association said that the Upgradation List excluded the names or misspelt the names of few women pilots who took maternity leaves, thereby amounting to a denial of due service benefits like Leave Travel Concession (LTC) and adversely affecting their seniority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is reiterated that the present actions of Air India amount to a complete unauthorized transgression vis-\u00e0-vis the constitutionally protected rights of its female Pilot workforce and are, therefore, unconstitutional, illegal, arbitrary, and contrary to the judicial pronouncements on this issue,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Commercial Pilots\u2019 Association accused the government\u2019s Air India of actively discriminating against women pilots, in a letter written to Air India Managing Director Rajiv Bansal on Monday. In the letter, the association said that the Upgradation List excluded the names or misspelt the names of few women pilots who took maternity leaves, thereby amounting to a denial of due service benefits like Leave Travel Concession (LTC) and adversely affecting their seniority. \u201cIt is reiterated that the present actions of Air India amount to a complete unauthorized transgression vis-\u00e0-vis the constitutionally protected rights of its female Pilot workforce 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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434776","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=434776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}