The Bombay high court has told the Airport Authority of India (AAI) that the ad-interim relief order on the nine transferred AAI staffers shall continue till the adjourned date on November 11. The employees had claimed in court that the management had illegally transferred them in violation of the transfer rules.
However, the interim order is being interpreted differently by the appellant as well as the respondent, with both claiming it's in their favour.
Dna had on Friday published a story highlighting how nine staffers of AAI fire control department had not been paid salaries for over three-four months after they had approached the industrial tribunal against their illegal and biased transfer.
Kiran Shivale, one of the affected employees, said: "The HC clearly states that the ad-interim relief order shall continue till the adjourned date on November 11. However, the management remains adamant and is not allowing us to continue to work at the airport station where we were posted before being served the transfer order."
AK Sharma, regional executive director at AAI (western region), however, has an opposite interpretation of the order. "Our (AAI) law department has communicated to me that the court had agreed to our prayers granting ad interim order."
The case reached the HC after the AAI management filed an appeal against an order passed on Sept 26 by the Central Government Industrial Tribunal (CGIT), asking it to cancel the transfers of nine staffers as it seemed to have been done in "violation of the transfer policy".
The affected employees said they had not been paid salaries for over three-four months putting them under severe financial strain.
"My daughter recently contracted dengue and lepto back to back. But AAI did not give the credit-note required to avail medical facility at the hospital. I had to borrow money for her treatment, as I have exhausted all my savings over the past four months," said one of the affected staffer from Juhu airport.
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