NACIL, unions fail to resolve PLI wage-cut issue

Mumbai: The Air India management and its unions today failed to reach an agreement on a wage cut as a majority of employees opposed any revision.
"The meeting with the management went on till the early hours of today but ended without any agreement on the issue," Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU) Regional Secretary, Vivek Rao, said here.
The Air India management had called a meeting with its unions yesterday to discuss its proposal of slashing its employees' productivity-linked incentives (PLIs)/flying allowance by 50 per cent as a part of its turnaround plan.
"There are other ways and means to turnaround the company than slashing employees' wages," Rao said.
"We are opposed to any cuts. We are, however, ready to sit across the table on other issues such as wasteful expenditure which would have an impact on company's finances but wages," he said.
Air India pays around Rs 1,400-crore as PLI to its employees which it wants to bring down to Rs 700-crore in order to curtail its mounting losses.
Manpower expenditure constitutes the second-largest component of the airline's operational costs after aviation turbine fuel bill.
26/08/09 Press Trust of India/Business Standard

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