{"id":450547,"date":"2021-11-18T11:01:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T05:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450547"},"modified":"2021-11-18T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T06:45:21","slug":"air-india-pilots-warn-of-industrial-action-if-payment-issues-arent-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-pilots-warn-of-industrial-action-if-payment-issues-arent-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India pilots warn of \u2018industrial action\u2019 if payment issues aren\u2019t resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of about 900 Air India pilots, representing their two unions \u2013 the Indian Pilots\u2019 Guild (IPG) and the Indian Commercial Pilots\u2019 Association (ICPA) \u2013 have warned of \u201cindustrial action\u201d if payment-related issues are not resolved soon. <\/p>\n<p>The protesting pilots are complaining over what they are calling an \u201cillegal pay-cut\u201d of 55%.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the management, the pilots have demanded payment as per market standards, while the airline awaits handover to the Tata Group, its new owner. <\/p>\n<p>The Air India pilots listed a number of demands, including the release of 25% arrears along with interest, a statement of gratuity, an option of leave encashment, medical benefits for permanent employees, tax-related implications of withheld layover substance allowance, and the release of pending grades to first officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of about 900 Air India pilots, representing their two unions \u2013 the Indian Pilots\u2019 Guild (IPG) and the Indian Commercial Pilots\u2019 Association (ICPA) \u2013 have warned of \u201cindustrial action\u201d if payment-related issues are not resolved soon. The protesting pilots are complaining over what they are calling an \u201cillegal pay-cut\u201d of 55%. In a letter to the management, the pilots have demanded payment as per market standards, while the airline awaits handover to the Tata Group, its new owner. The Air India pilots listed a number of demands, including the release of 25% arrears along with interest, a statement [&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-450547","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\/450547","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=450547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}