160 staff of private firm at airport in limbo
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The 160 personnel employed in Thiruvananthapuram International Airport by the bottom dealing with company, Bhadra International India Pvt. Ltd., are in dire straits as they’ve been terminated following the choice to wind up operations.
The firm, one of the 2 engaged in floor dealing with operations at the airport, had not settled the pending salaries, allowances, together with gratuity and bonus from April 2019, and depart encashment of the staff. The administration had additionally not paid the month-to-month contribution in direction of the EPF and ESI. The workers had been engaged on slashed salaries from March 2020 following the ban imposed in the nation on business flights as a result of pandemic-induced lockdown.
With no indicators of settling the dues regardless of a swimsuit filed earlier than the Regional Labour Commissioner, the Confederation of Trivandrum Airport Workers Trade Union, an umbrella organisation of INTUC, CITU and BMS unions, have come out to assist the trigger of the 160 workers and to get the dues.
Dharna staged
The union organised a dharna in entrance of the airport on Tuesday demanding steps to settle the dues of workers who’ve been left in the lurch.
The floor dealing with company had defaulted cost of licence price to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) forcing the AAI to serve discover in March 2020 itself to terminate the settlement. The company was engaged in the bottom dealing with of just one airline and it wound up operations in October 2020. The workplace that was functioning in the airport was additionally closed.
The company had the authority of the AAI to take care of the bottom dealing with of Etihad, Fly Dubai, Oman Air and chartered flights. The company’s makes an attempt to shift the bottom dealing with gear like trolleys and step ladder value crores mendacity in the airport premises didn’t succeed following the stiff resistance of workers.
The president of CITU-affiliated Thiruvananthapuram International and Domestic Airport Contract Workers Union, R.S. Vijayamohan stated they’d requested the AAI Director to make sure that the affected workers get precedence whereas the brand new floor dealing with company was appointed.
The union has additionally urged the AAI to not launch the bottom dealing with gear of Bhadra International India Pvt. Ltd. mendacity in the airport until the dues of the staff are settled.
Meanwhile, the AAI is in the ultimate levels of discovering floor dealing with company in 5 Group B1 airports, together with Thiruvananthapuram. AAI sources stated eight had participated in the 2 cowl bidding course of.
Ray of hope
For the 160 workers, the brand new floor dealing with company to be appointed by AAI for Thiruvananthapuram airport is the one ray of hope.
