Govt working on wage parity for IA, A-I merger

Mumbai: The government is in the process of structuring a uniform performance-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for Air-India (A-I) and Indian Airlines (IA) employees after the merger of the two airlines.
This means nearly 33,500 employees of the National Aviation Company of India Ltd (NACIL), which is the entity into which A-I and IA are being amalgamated, will get a common PLI scheme.
The government is also working out a formula to create uniformity in the wage component.
“This is aimed at reducing the disparity in the gross salary for NACIL employees. One cannot structure wages and PLI for only one part of the airline. The wages need to be streamlined to reflect uniformity for similar categories and avoid a conflict of interest,” sources said.
The trigger for the move was a flash strike by a faction of Air-India's union.
Aviation Industry Employees’ Guild’s general secretary George Abraham said the union had called off the strike following an assurance from management to this effect.
16/08/07 P R Sanjai /Business Standard

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