Air India to cut 15,000 jobs
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Air India has announced that it is planning to suspend the jobs of up to 15,000 of its worker, according to a BBC report. The airline is to offer leave without pay to the workers for a period of up to five years, although the state-owned airline stressed that the option would be voluntary.
Air India’s Managing Director, Raghu Menon, told the PTI news agency that those who take up the possible offer would be allowed to return on the same pay. Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel, said there were no plans compulsorily to prune staff numbers which currently total about 25,000 people.
“Air India is not going to have any job cuts. Certainly it (aviation crisis) will affect the growth plans, it will affect the future employment opportunities which would have come the way of Air India in case the aviation industry was in a much better financial health,” Patel told PTI.
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