India Business News: SpiceJet ground staff had a run in with the airline management at the Mumbai airport on Thursday night over fears of job loss. The ruckus began after
on Apr 22, 2021)Mumbai: Covid’s second wave has hit
SpiceJet so badly that the airline said it has been forced to partially outsource its ground handling operations at Mumbai airport to a private company.
Sources said the airline has planned to lay off 300 out of the 590-strong staff. These largely comprise loaders and drivers who have been employed for 3 to 15 years on fixed-term contract with SpiceJet to carry out ground handling work like loading/unloading baggage, and transporting passengers between terminal & aircraft.
“On one hand, SpiceJet has bid for Air India and, on the other, they say they don’t have funds to pay full salaries or keep employees on payroll. We served them a strike notice on Tuesday. They have 14 days now to resolve the issue,” said Arvind Sawant, president of Shiv Sena union Bharatiya Kamgar Sena a recognised union.
When the Shiv Sena Tried to Ensure Only Maharashtrians Were Given Jobs in the State
As multiple state governments contemplate reserving jobs for locals , this sliver of history is worth remembering.
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The state governments of Haryana and Jharkhand have recently declared that their state would reserve 75% of their employment for `localsâ. For Jharkhand these reservations are for jobs paying up to Rs 30,000 a month and in Haryana, it is jobs earning less than Rs 50,000 a month in the private sector. The decision in Jharkhand was apparently taken looking at the large number of migrant youths coming back to their homes during the lockdown. The stateâs unemployment rate gradually fell down to 11.3% in January 2021 after rising up to 59.2% at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, revealed the Economic Survey. In January 2020, the unemployment rate was 10.6%.
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) will not hear employees of Jet Airways before passing its order on the grounded airline’s revival plan. It said so while rejecting employee union applications for intervention. Hearing on the resolution plan is expected to start on Tuesday. “Taking facts of the case at hand, and the law as it stands today into consideration, we are of the view that the applicants (employee unions) cannot be entitled to the copy of resolution plan or any portion thereof. They would also not be eligible to be heard or intervene in the process of consideration of the resolution plan by this authority. The payments as to their wages, gratuity and other terminal benefits shall be in accordance with the law and in terms of the resolution plan guided by the provisions under the code,” Janab Mohammed Ajmal (member judicial) and V Nallasenapathy (member technical) said in their order.
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Unions wanted to see plan to know if it protected their rights
Jet Airways employee unions’ plea to review the resolution plan submitted by Kalrock-Jalan consortium was rejected by the Mumbai Bench of NCLT on Monday. As many as five employee unions had appealed to the insolvency courts to see the resolution plan. “The respondent ( resolution professional managing Jet Airways) is duty-bound to maintain and ensure confidentiality of the resolution plan as provided under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India,” the court said in its written order, accessed by
BusinessLine.
The airline was temporarily grounded in April 2019. Later that year, it was dragged to the NCLT by its lenders over unpaid dues. The CoC and the Resolution Professional held at least four rounds of inviting interest for the debt-strapped airline.