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Air India Express Fires 30 Cabin Crew Members, Day After Mass Sick Leave

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New Delhi: Air India Express has sacked at least 30 cabin crew, a day after nearly 300 employees of the airline called in sick and switched off their phones, leading to large-scale flight disruptions. The number of job terminations is likely to increase. The management, sources said, has given an ultimatum to the employees to join work by 4 pm today or face action.  A total of 76 flights have been cancelled today as the disruptions snowball into a full-blown crisis for the low-cost airline, which is a subsidiary of Air India, now owned by the Tata group. The employees have been protesting against the new employment terms, sources have said. The crew, the sources said, has alleged a lack of equality in the treatment of staff. They have claimed that some staff members have been offered lower job roles despite clearing interviews for senior positions, the sources said. The crew has also flagged some modifications in their compensation package. These developments are taking place even as the airline is in the middle of a merger with …

Air India Express Employees To Airline

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New Delhi: The Air India Express Employees Union, or AIXEU, has written to the Chairman of Air India to express concerns like “growing unrest and dissatisfaction among employees”. In a two-page letter addressed to Natarajan Chandrasekaran, the Chairman of the Tata Sons-owned Air India Limited (of which Air India Express is a subsidiary) to red-flag growing levels of discontent within employees’ ranks following the takeover of the airline by the private firm. There is a “stark departure from commitments on job security, salary and maintenance, and respect for seniority and maintenance”, AIXEU said in its letter, referring to the firing of “several employees with impeccable records” that it said was “contrary to assurances” made by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman that there will be “no termination for two years post acquisition” of the formerly government-run Air India. Referring to the treatment of whistleblowers, the AIXEU said “employees find themselves silenced when attempting to address grievances, with management actively suppressing any dissenting voices on company platforms”. “Furthermore, there is a glaring lack of equality in treatment …