SC upholds govt policy on Vayudoot staff

New Delhi: In a judgement which has deep relevance for the posting and career of employees of merged airlines, the Supreme Court today upheld the government policy regarding the absorption of the staff of erstwhile Vayudoot in Indian Airlines in 1993.
The court stated that the judgement of the single bench of the Delhi High Court which struck down the policy was wrong.
The Supreme Court thus dismissed the appeals of the Indian Airlines Officers' Association, IA Cabin Crew Association and the IA Officers' Welfare Forum.
Initially, they had won in the high court when it asked the airlines "to re-frame the policy of cadre merger by assessing and determining the equation of posts by taking into consideration the guiding factors laid down by the Supreme Court."
However, a division bench of the same high court had overruled that order. The airline officers therefore appealed to the Supreme Court against the division bench judgement, but lost.
In order to absorb the large number of employees of the wound-up public sector airlines, Indian Airlines created a "short haul operations department" which consisted of Vayudoot employees in their grouped order of seniority as per their length of service with designation as were applicable with the IA.
01/08/07 Business Standard

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Categories: Indian Aug 2007