Did rolling up sleeves cost air-hostess two promotions?

Mumbai: For air-hostess Rima, wearing a cardigan with the sleeves rolled back was a triviality, but the airline apparently took such a serious view of it that it cost her two promotions. The question before the Bombay high court now is whether the airline was making too much out of her sartorial transgressions or they indeed deserved harsh disciplinary action.
Even as Rima is battling her employer National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) in the high court for her backwages from two stalled promotions, the company says it has been rather lenient with her, calling her a “habitual breacher” of rules and regulations.
Rima, who moved court last year, has contended that she joined Air India (AI) in 1979 and has been working with the company since then. However, a “trivial” mistake on her part has cost her backwages to the tune of Rs60 lakh from two promotions, which were delayed owing to a punishment handed out to her.
On April 2, 1993, Rima has stated in her petition, she was chargesheeted for wearing a cardigan with sleeves pushed back, which looked “very shabby”, not carrying an authorisation to wear the cardigan on the flight, not wearing a winter overcoat at Frankfurt Airport and not attending to a passenger. While Rima said she wore the cardigan because she was feeling unwell, she pushed the sleeves behind because they were short. She stated she did not feel the need to wear an overcoat at Frankfurt airport, even with the temperature being as low as six degrees centigrade, because the airport was well-heated. She denied not attending to the passenger.
07/03/10 Mayura Janwalkar/Daily News & Analysis

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