Mumbai: A day after Bombay High Court squashed a half-century-old exemption enjoyed by Air India — from a legal requirement that allowed it to bring about a change in its employees’ service condition without prior notifications — after eight of its employee unions appealed against the exemption, the carrier is set to appeal against the court order while its employee unions, too, are set to follow suit.
A senior Air India official told FE that the airline would challenge the court order. “The Dharmadhikari Committee Report hasn’t been touched in the judgement,” the senior Air india official said.
Commenting on the applicability of Section 9A, the official said that Air India had got exemption from 16 state governments on the applicability of Section 9A of the Industrial Disputes Act decades ago.
“However, this was recently amended and required the nod of the Centre to get the same exemption. We didn’t ask the central government for exemption because the presumption was that we have had this exemption and there had been previous court cases where the courts have upheld this exemption for both Air India and erstwhile Indian Airline,” a senior Air India official said.
29/01/14 Financial Express
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A senior Air India official told FE that the airline would challenge the court order. “The Dharmadhikari Committee Report hasn’t been touched in the judgement,” the senior Air india official said.
Commenting on the applicability of Section 9A, the official said that Air India had got exemption from 16 state governments on the applicability of Section 9A of the Industrial Disputes Act decades ago.
“However, this was recently amended and required the nod of the Centre to get the same exemption. We didn’t ask the central government for exemption because the presumption was that we have had this exemption and there had been previous court cases where the courts have upheld this exemption for both Air India and erstwhile Indian Airline,” a senior Air India official said.
29/01/14 Financial Express
