A few facts about present salary/PLI disparity between Air India (AI) and Indian Airlines%u2019(IA) employees.
1. Salary revision w.e.f. Jan,1997 had taken place in AI for most of the Employees but for IA it had yet to be done.
2. Present salary of AI employees after revision is less than those of IA even without revision.
3. Salary of IA employees would be 10 to 12% more after revision than those of AI whose salary revision had already taken place.
4. There is already huge disparity in PLI between IA & AI. At preset IA employees are getting much more PLI than those of AI. Example :- AI Manager get PLI Rs.10000 to 15000 per month depending on varying parameters whereas IA manager get Rs.45000 (Forty five thousand) per month fixed (no variation).
5. After merging of IA with AI, Salary/PLI of IA employees may get revised at per with AI employees. In that case they would be suffering with huge financial loss.
6. If AI employees%u2019 salary/PLI is made at per with IA then AI employees would get huge financial gain. Not only this, in such scenario present AI management had to pay arrears to all it%u2019s employees from Jan, 1997 for salary and from Aug, 1996 for PLI.
Under the above circumstances, the only solution is to close down IA and that%u2019s what Mr. Praful Patel is trying to do. He would soon declare lock-out in IA and then close down it.
