Parity in wages demand: AI top brass meet union leaders

New Delhi: Air India top brass today met leaders of two pilots' unions and assured them that their problems would be looked into, especially those relating to the wage structure.
A demand for parity in wages between the pilots of erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air India was among the major issues raised by the Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), the apex body of erstwhile Indian Airlines pilots.
Air India CMD Arvind Jadhav and other top officials held separate meetings with the leaders of the ICPA and the Indian Pilots Guild of Air India at the Mumbai headquarters, two days after the newly-constituted Board of the national carrier met for the first time.
As part of its cost-cutting and restructuring plans, Air India Board had on Tuesday set up four committees -- audit, finance, strategy and human resources -- to provide inputs to the management through which progress of the turnaround plan could be monitored.
The ICPA's demand for parity in salary and allowances of pilots of the two former airlines came in the backdrop of strong recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee and the Committee on Public Undertakings.
ICPA sources said the management assured them that they would look into this demand as part of rationalising and restructuring the wage structure.
08/04/10 Press Trust of India/Business Standard

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