Salaries, incentives of AI, IA staff to be harmonised

New Delhi: After having shelved its wage cut plan, the national carrier Air India (AI) has decided to opt for salary and performance incentive harmonisation for employees of Air India and erstwhile Indian Airlines.
The two state owned carriers were merged in 2007 and the merged entity was named National Aviation Company of India (Nacil).
Nacil has already sent notices to eight employee unions on its plans to integrate payments and rankings of the two merged carriers. When implemented, the harmonisation of salaries may mean either the lower-paid employees at one particular level would be brought at par with higher-paid ones or vice versa.
An airline official said the company would appoint experts from outside to take the final call on how to go about the process. “There are three areas of integration on agenda. First will be the harmonisation of compensation. Second would be harmonisation in the ranks of the officials and third would be uniformity in grade and key responsibilities. In terms of hiking or not hiking of salaries, a decision is yet to be taken,” said the official who declined to be named.
Employees of erstwhile AI and IA have been at loggerheads since the merger over disparity between salaries. While, at a manager or officer level, IA employees are paid more than those in AI, at the general manager level and above, AI officials earn more.
29/12/10 Parul Chhaparia/mydigitalfc.com

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