{"id":507463,"date":"2022-07-21T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507463"},"modified":"2022-07-21T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:41:45","slug":"air-india-vrs-4500-opt-for-scheme-by-the-new-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-vrs-4500-opt-for-scheme-by-the-new-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India VRS: 4,500 opt for scheme by the new management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 4,500 Air India employees have opted for the voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) offered by the new management, said people with knowledge of the matter. This is a key part of the Tata Group&#8217;s strategy to infuse fresh energy by hiring new talent across operations in the airline. It&#8217;s working on revamping the airline to cut costs, improve productivity and revitalise archaic systems with a digital culture, executives said.<\/p>\n<p>When it was acquired, Air India had about 13,000 employees, of which 8,000 were permanent staff and the rest contractual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 4,500 Air India employees have opted for the voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) offered by the new management, said people with knowledge of the matter. This is a key part of the Tata Group&#8217;s strategy to infuse fresh energy by hiring new talent across operations in the airline. It&#8217;s working on revamping the airline to cut costs, improve productivity and revitalise archaic systems with a digital culture, executives said. When it was acquired, Air India had about 13,000 employees, of which 8,000 were permanent staff and the rest contractual.<\/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-507463","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\/507463","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=507463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}