Jul 13, 2022
By: Vaamanaa SethiA significant number of maintenance technicians in GoAir airlines on June 12 went on sick leave for three days to protest over low salaries.
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The GoAir technicians who went on sick leave wrote an email to the airline's management asking for an increase in their salaries.
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GoAir technicians’ strike followed a similar incident at IndiGo. Two days ago, several IndiGo technical staff members took a mass sick leave in Delhi and Hyderabad for the same reason.
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...along with necessary medical documents, to verify if they were actually sick.
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...sick leave to attend Tata Air India’s mass recruitment drive.
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...as a new airline, Akasa Airlines, is set to launch operations.
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Praveen Paul, a Bengaluru-based aviation consultant believes that employees would stick to bigger airlines who are better paymasters and will look for stability in addition to hikes. IndiGo, he says, is one of the few airlines that pays its employees on time.
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IndiGo and SpiceJet had both deferred salary payments and slashed salaries to survive. However, they restored them within a year, as airlines started flying in 2021.
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All airlines will face a crew shortage, leading to massive employee poaching in the industry. There are around 17,000 registered pilots in India, with only about 2,500 women. The industry needs to fill this gap urgently.
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