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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Not only was the Tata group stared down by the protesting cabin crew, it had to eat crow by reinstating staff whose services it had terminated. Is the conglomerate’s storied industrial relations record under threat?
What started as a trickle of cabin crew calling in sick last Monday soon turned into a veritable flood at the Bengaluru base of Air India Express—enough to lead to a disruption of the budget carrier’s flights late Tuesday onwards. The airline management’s attempts at damage control—getting crew at its Kochi and Delhi bases to move to Bengaluru—drew a blank; most of them either declined or called in sick.
Up to 200 cabin crew, nearly all of them senior (without whom a flight cannot take off), reported sick in what turned out to be the biggest instance of coordinated industrial …
As the low-cost carrier pushes through a compensation overhaul, the absence of a CEO is complicating a delicate moment.
The two new chief executives at Air India and IndiGo come with contrasting reputations but face the same challenge—do their predecessors one better.
The Tata Group’s silence and absence from Ahmedabad on the first anniversary of India’s worst air disaster risks putting a dent in its much-vaunted value system.
