The Bombay High Court has turned down a petition by the Air India Employees Guild (AIEG) to stay election proceedings – a judgement which will help cut drastically the number of recognised unions in Air India to two from the current 15. Once implemented, this would be the single-largest human resources (HR) transformative step in the airline’s history.
The national carrier has drawn up a blue-print to rationalise the number of recognised unions in the airline from 15 to two — one union for pilots and the other for all other employees. The selection of the two unions will be done through an electoral process. The airline’s two subsidiaries — Air India Engineering Services Limited (AIESL) for maintenance repair and overhaul and Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL) for ground handling — would have between them another three recognised unions.
13/07/15 Sharmistha Mukherjee/The Financial Express
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The national carrier has drawn up a blue-print to rationalise the number of recognised unions in the airline from 15 to two — one union for pilots and the other for all other employees. The selection of the two unions will be done through an electoral process. The airline’s two subsidiaries — Air India Engineering Services Limited (AIESL) for maintenance repair and overhaul and Air India Air Transport Services Limited (AIATSL) for ground handling — would have between them another three recognised unions.
13/07/15 Sharmistha Mukherjee/The Financial Express
