{"id":9238,"date":"2011-04-24T00:04:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2011\/04\/24\/ai-to-go-lightweight-shift-staff\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T00:04:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T00:04:01","slug":"ai-to-go-lightweight-shift-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2011\/04\/24\/ai-to-go-lightweight-shift-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"AI to go lightweight, shift staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><span style=\"font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;\">NEW DELHI, APR 23 :<\/span> Air India (AI) has approved a plan to shift 7,400 employees to a proposed engineering strategic business unit (SBU). This will bring down its employee to aircraft ratio \u2014 one of the highest in the world \u2014 in line with other big international airlines. The new unit will be spun off as a separate company. Air India wants to rope in a partner for this company and is in talks with a number of global airlines.<br \/>\n\u201cWe plan to shift 7,400 employees to our engineering SBU, which is awaiting the Union cabinet\u2019s approval. The SBU will start functioning as soon as we get the approval,\u201d said a senior Air India official, who did not want to be identified.<br \/>\nThe official said the terms and conditions of employment would not change.<br \/>\n\u201cThe perks and salaries of those shifting to the SBU will remain the same. However, fresh hiring will be on new terms and conditions,\u201d said the official. The employees were earlier reluctant to shift due to fear their job terms and conditions would change. The SBU will be Air India\u2019s second subsidiary. It already has a ground-handling subsidiary, Air India Singapore Airport Terminal Services (AISATS), a joint venture with Singapore-based SATS. However, only 10 per cent AISATS staff is from Air India. This is because it offered fresh terms and conditions and hired on contract. The SBU will look at getting business from the `2,000-crore Indian maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry, which is expected to see fast growth in the coming years.<br \/>\nEarlier, Air India had a plan to set up three subsidiaries \u2014 for ground-handling, engineering and cargo. It dropped the plan to set up a cargo subsidiary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, APR 23 : Air India (AI) has approved a plan to shift 7,400 employees to a proposed engineering strategic business unit (SBU). This will bring down its employee to aircraft ratio \u2014 one of the highest in the world \u2014 in line with other big international airlines. The new unit will be spun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}