New Delhi: Air India (AI) has asked a section of its aircraft maintenance engineers (AMEs) to come to work daily — without weekly offs and privilege leave — for a full three months, at the end of which they would be entitled to use all the accumulated leave in one go. This, however, is subject to the availability of replacement staff.
The engineers have protested against the directive, saying it compromises airline safety and is discriminatory as the AI circular applies only to AMEs belonging to the erstwhile Indian Airlines.
The new leave rule is for the one year of service that AMEs are expected to put in at outstation domestic bases. Within the three-month no-break period, leave is prohibited except in “extreme exigency”. The AMEs have written to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and Air India CMD protesting the new rule.
13/03/12 Smita Aggarwal/Financial Express
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