As the Air
India management and pilots have failed to arrive at a solution in the first round
of conciliatory talks before the Labour Commissioner, the Indian Pilots Guild
has served a fresh charter of demands to the management on Friday.
The
four-hour-long conciliatory proceedings before the Deputy Chief Labour
Commissioner, following directions by the Delhi High Court, didn’t yield any
resolution. No new date for the next hearing has been fixed.
“As per the
High Court order, all pilots have reported to work again. Today, we came for
this conciliatory meeting. But unfortunately, the Air India management didn’t
reciprocate our goodwill gesture of reporting to work again,” Indian Pilots
Guild joint secretary Tauseef Mukadam told reporters after the proceedings.
He said the
AI management sought more time to consider the demands. The Deputy Labour Commissioner
has recorded the proceedings and will submit a report to the High Court on July
9.
Meanwhile,
indicating the distrust between the AI management and the pilot’s body, the
Indian Pilots Guild on Friday wrote to the Chairman and Managing Director, AI,
with a copy to Deputy Labour Commissioner, seeking resolution of their
demands/grievances.
In its
charter of demands, the guild demanded urgent revocation/withdrawal of all the
orders regarding termination of the services of pilots of erstwhile Air India,
guaranteeing that no punitive action and/or administrative proceedings and/or
any kind of victimisation would be imposed on the pilots of the guild.
Similarly,
it also demanded that all the line pilots of erstwhile Air India and members of
the guild be paid pending salaries, flying allowances, and layover sustenance
allowances, which has been paid to the rest of the pilots of the erstwhile Air
India and erstwhile Indian Airlines; recognising of IPG as the only
representative body to represent the interests of the line of pilots of
erstwhile Air India, and withdrawal of the Air India complaint to DGCA, which
resulted in the show-cause notices threatening to cancel the licences of the
pilots.
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