Air India employees move Madras HC against disinvestment without protecting their service conditions
The Hindu
The Court has given orders that the employees not be evicted from their residential accommodation and their medical facilities not be discontinued
A trade union representing over 5,000 employees of Air India Limited has approached the Madras High Court to restrain the Centre from disinvesting in the air carrier without first holding talks with the union to protect the service conditions, other rights and entitlements of the existing workforce.
Justice V. Parthiban on Friday ordered notices, returnable by January 7, to the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation, Air India Limited (AIL) and Talace Private Limited, a company set up by the Tata Group to acquire Air India. The notices were ordered on the writ petition filed by Air Corporation Employees Union (ACEU).
Acceding to a request made by senior counsel R. Vaigai, the judge also granted two interim injunctions restraining the official respondents from evicting the employees from residential accommodation that had been provided to them and also from discontinuing existing medical facilities.
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