New Delhi, June
1:
Air India
employees are likely to receive their salary in August as per the
recommendations of the Dharamadhikari committee report. The Committee had been
set up to bring about integration of unified Air India, including pilots, cabin
crew and engineers.
Addressing a
press conference in the Capital on Friday, the Civil Aviation Minister, Mr Ajit
Singh, said that pay of employees will be protected.
The Minister
and officials, however, declined to comment on whether there will be a decline
in the monthly pay package that some employees will receive after the
implementation of the report.
Annual savings
The Minister
said the implementation of the report would lead to an annual saving of about
Rs 250 crore.
The saving
would be on account of implementation of Voluntary Retirement Scheme and a
cutback in passage rules.
Passage relates
to the number of free and subsidised air tickets that are provided to each
airline staff and their extended family at present.
The committee
is likely to recommend a severe curtailment of family members entitled to such
passages after implementation of the report. Mr Singh said that April 1, 2007
has been set as cut off date for new pay scales and promised that senior
employees will not be paid less than junior employees. There will be uniform
pay scales for all employees of erstwhile Air India and Indian Airlines, the
Minister said.
For the
executive cadre, pay scales are according to the Department of Public
Enterprise (DPE) norms and for non-executive cadres, pay scales are as per the
industry norms.
Panel formed
A four-member
Committee headed by Mr Nasir Ali, Director in Ministry of Civil Aviation, has
been entrusted with the task of doing level mapping of the airline employees
for implementing the report.
The committee
has been asked to submit its report within the next 45 days.
The Minister
also announced that Productivity Linked Incentive (PLI) in its present form
shall be abolished.
However, it
will be subsumed in determination of basic pay to the extent DPE guidelines.
Officials
indicated that with the implementation of the Committee report the various
agreements signed with Air India will be null and void.
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