{"id":17820,"date":"2018-01-09T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=17820"},"modified":"2018-01-09T08:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:01:04","slug":"air-india-terminates-over-400-contractual-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/air-india-terminates-over-400-contractual-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India terminates over 400 contractual employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:<br \/>\nDisinvestment-bound Air India has terminated the services of over 400 employees who were hired by the airline on contractual basis after their retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The employees affected are those hired for non-technical roles and the move follows an order from the airline&#8217;s Chairman and Managing Director Pradeep Singh Kharola.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nThe latest directive follows a similar order issued in August, which put on hold proposals for employing recently retired officials as well as renewing contracts for those former employees who were due for an extension.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Union Cabinet gave its in-principle approval for disinvestment of Air India and constituted an inter-ministerial group for working on the strategy for the airline&#8217;s stake sale.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\n&#8220;The CMD has directed that contract of the retired employees under non-technical category (i.e. excluding pilots, flight dispatchers, service engineers, OPT, OTT instructors, flight safety) be terminated with immediate effect,&#8221; as per a circular issued by Executive Director-Personnel on January 5.<\/p>\n<p>The directive, however, adds that exceptions could be made for officials performing critical roles on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In case there are cases which cannot be terminated as they are handling critical assignment, proper justification to be put up to CMD for his perusal and approval,&#8221; as per the order.<br \/>\nAir India spokesperson G P Rao confirmed the development.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- punjabnews24 --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6565419310935097\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6948863062\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><br \/>\nAnother source added that there were nearly 412 retired personnel working with the airline whose services have now been discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>These employees also include those working with Air India&#8217;s subsidiary companies such as Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL), Air India Charters Limited, Airline Allied Services Limited and Air India Engineering Services Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Disinvestment-bound Air India has terminated the services of over 400 employees who were hired by the airline on contractual basis after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17822,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17820\/revisions\/17822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}