Government gears up for pay parity in Indian Airlines and Air India

New Delhi: Crisis-ridden Air India may be headed for more HR trouble as the aviation ministry begins work on implementing the Dharmadhikari committee's report to bring about pay parity between employees of the now merged AI and Indian Airlines. The ministry has decided to implement the panel's suggestions for scrapping of performance-linked incentive (PLI) to employees to bring AI pay structure in line with the Public Enterprise Selection Board.
The ministry is yet to decide on other suggestions like allowing pilots of AI and IA to be cross-utilized for all aircraft in the merged airline's fleet, while having different seniority criteria for them. A ministerial panel is studying the report to decide what would finally be done so that implementation can begin in two months. "AI pilots are the highest paid pilots in the world. In the first year of implementing the report, we are targeting a saving of Rs 250 crore. This will mean some people take some pain but the cuts for people who are getting way more than industry average will not be more than 10-15 %," said sources.
19/05/12 Times of India

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