In the past few weeks, the old Air India, now under the ownership of Tata Group and the most struggling national carrier, has terminated the employers of over 200 non-flying staff members. The airline, on the other hand, provides sources that claim that some individuals did not leverage these brilliant retirement packages and on-the-job training, but other sources tend to be different.
Despite ongoing attempts to modernize the loss-making airline’s business, the billionaire industrialist group Tata has been relentlessly mending Air India’s ways. For this reason, Air India (the source) has moved some non-flying employees to newly created roles in ways that make better sense to the organization as a whole and the individuals concerned, as per an Air India spokesperson.
Another fact mentioned by the spokesperson was that for the last 18 months, a thorough assessment was done to determine if everyone was emotionally ready to continue working in the company. Throughout this time, widespread evidence showed that the jobs market was open to voluntary retirement schemes and worker re-skilling programs.
That said, for the minutest of the employees making 1% up of the entire employee base, whose situation it was and how they desisted from the termination came, that was the decision arrived at somehow, unfortunately. The airline warrants that it will, in no case, abrogate its contractual responsibilities while undergoing this transition process
However, the number of Air India employees affected by the layoffs was not disclosed to the public at large, but sources suggest that it is more than 180 of the traditional employees. It is worth noting that AI currently has more than 18k people on its staff.
Tata Group, responsible for management since January 2022, recently announced the first two rounds of voluntary retirement schemes. The last-resort act of giving so many people their marching orders is consistent with the wider plan named by the airline company Vihaan. AI. It seeks to standardize the working mode and develop a more efficient organizational structure that will accomplish its objectives.
Moving further in its restructuring drive programme, Air India aims to strengthen the country’s economic performance and sustainability. The decisions made cover the airline’s determination to align with the industry’s dynamism coupled with the problems arising due to the closure of available programs for specific employees who did not adapt to the emerging opportunities for retirement or skill enhancement.
