New Delhi: Airlines who default on their service condition agreements, like payment of salaries, with their employees could end up losing their valuable HR resources like pilots without any notice period.
The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) had last week asked Indian airlines to give a list of commanders who had quit without giving the mandatory six-month notice period and joined foreign carriers. The regulator had warned that such pilot could end up losing their licences.
Predictably, this decision was panned by pilots who questioned the DGCA threat to their licence. The reason: Many of them had quit as their Indian employer airline had unilaterally cut salaries, defaulted on payment or did not meet other service conditions.
Following this outcry, a senior DGCA official has now said that both the commanders and employer airlines must fulfill contractual obligations to each other. "If an airline has not kept its part of the contractual obligation or service condition with the pilots, their contract has been breached. Citing this breach, such pilots can leave without serving the notice period and no action will be taken against them," said an official.
11/08/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
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The directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) had last week asked Indian airlines to give a list of commanders who had quit without giving the mandatory six-month notice period and joined foreign carriers. The regulator had warned that such pilot could end up losing their licences.
Predictably, this decision was panned by pilots who questioned the DGCA threat to their licence. The reason: Many of them had quit as their Indian employer airline had unilaterally cut salaries, defaulted on payment or did not meet other service conditions.
Following this outcry, a senior DGCA official has now said that both the commanders and employer airlines must fulfill contractual obligations to each other. "If an airline has not kept its part of the contractual obligation or service condition with the pilots, their contract has been breached. Citing this breach, such pilots can leave without serving the notice period and no action will be taken against them," said an official.
11/08/14 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India
