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Air India won't sack employees: Praful Patel

PTI | By, Chennai
Jul 05, 2009 01:24 AM IST

Cash-strapped public carrier Air India would not sack employees but financial and organisational restructuring was on the cards, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Praful Patel said today.

Cash-strapped public carrier Air India would not sack employees but financial and organisational restructuring was on the cards, Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Praful Patel said on Saturday.

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"There is no question of sacking, employees will be protected," Patel said. Patel, however, said it was time for everyone - management and staff - to introspect.

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"It is a tough time and we have to cooperate. We will have to go through financial and organisational restructuring to bring back the airlines on a healthy track," Patel said.

He was speaking to reporters on his way to Chennai airport, where he had gone to inaugurate a desalination plant by Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited and also the Manali-Chennai Aviation Turbine Fuel Pipeline by Indian Oil Corporation.

On wage restructuring, a decision on which is pending, Patel said, "We have sat and agreed on a formula for wages to be paid in a particular fashion," but he did not elaborate on this.

On the two-hour walkout by Air India employees on Friday, which the management had declared illegal, to protest delayed payment in June salary, he said it was a token strike and flight operations were not affected.

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