On Thursday, all India Jet Airways‘ Officers and Staff Association told it had filed a request before the NCLAT against the Jalan-Kalrock consortium’s resolution plan for the airline.
In October 2020, the airline’s Committee of Creditors (CoC) approved the resolution plan submitted by the consortium of the UK’s Kalrock Capital and the UAE-based entrepreneur Murari Lal Jalan. The plan was later cleared by the Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).
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“The resolution plan is contingent on many hypotheticals about the help of crucial assets of the former Jet Airways, including its property, flight slots, and most importantly, its workers and employees,” All India Jet Airways’ Officers and Staff Association President Kiran Pawaskar told in a report.
National Company Law Appellate Tribunal
In its petition before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), the association has prayed for complete payments of the gratuity, unpaid wages, privilege leave encashment, bonus from April 2018 to June 2019, and retrenchment compensation to all workers and employees, the report told.
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Among others, the association has demanded that any employee re-hired by the resolution applicant or the Monitoring Committee are paid their gratuity, unpaid wages, privilege leave encashment, bonus, and retrenchment compensation as per their entitlements and that any signed document for the waiver/forfeiture of these amounts not be implemented against them.
The airline, which is expected to restart services in the coming months, is managed by the Monitoring Committee.
Narayan Hariharan, former Senior Vice-President of Jet Airways and legal advisor to employees, told the resolution plan is “precariously held together by a vague business plan”.
The airline is forcing workers to waive all their statutory rights they are owed, particularly gratuity, privilege leave, unpaid salary, and bonus, the association claimed.
The airline was earlier owned by Naresh Goyal and Gulf carrier Etihad. Bogged down by financial woes, the complete-service carrier shuttered operations in April 2019.
Later, a consortium of lenders, led by the State Bank of India (SBI), filed an insolvency petition in June 2019 to recover outstanding dues worth over ₹ 8,000 crores.
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Source: NDTV
