The new "employment terms" plan for implementation of the agreement on January 1, 2023, was delayed due to resistance from unions, according to a report.

*_{The airline is prohibited from altering, ‘terms of employment’ for one year as a bond of acquisition agreement that was signed with the government of India, January 2022.}*

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Air India’s new HR policies to be implemented by April, this year.
The term agreement implementation plan delayed due to recent issues and union resistance.
The new HR Policy implementation delayed and postponed from January 2023 as bonded by the acquisition agreement before.
DGCA instructed, TATA Sons list out the miss-behavioural passengers and put them into “No Fly List”.
Tata Implementing Code of Conduct to biases and prejudices throughout the organization.

New People (HR) Policies from April | Air India

Air India, founded by JRD Tata in 1932, was a privately owned aviation company in colonial India. After 1947, the ‘government of India’ took over the company as a government undertaking until January 26, 2022, when TATA Sons bought back the aviation company. TATA Sons acquired a 100% stake in Air India on January 27, 2022, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Talace Private Limited (“Talace”).

Although, Air India has an old association with controversy, at present, the airline is facing allegations of failing to adequately address an incident where a man on one of their flights allegedly urinated on a woman. Due to this, the company will have to delay the implementation of their new human resources (people) policy, according to media reports.

As per the acquisition agreement that was signed with the government in January 2022, it prohibited the airline from changing “employment terms” for one year, until January 2023. As a result of the unresolved recent issue and union opposition to the new terms, implementation has been delayed and postponed, and will only take effect after March 2023.

Recently, an Air India passenger (Shankar Mishra) was arrested after a woman on board filed a complaint about him urinating on her.

Shankar Mishra has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days. The aviation regulatory body of India, ‘DGCA has instructed TATA Group-owned Air India, on the incident to establish a record of all passengers who have exhibited unruly behavior and put them on a ‘No-Fly-List.’

The regulator also requested that the airline bring the incident to the attention of their internal committee, which will have 30 days to determine the length of the ban on flying for the unruly passenger. The airline has the option of banning the passenger for a period ranging from no days to a permanent ban.

According to media reports, Air India’s new management has finalized a new service agreement draft that includes key performance indicators and key result areas for individual contributors. The executive said that the change would be faster if there was fixed accountability.

According to media reports, a senior executive of Air India said, “Tata’s do not have a culture of hiring and firing… Therefore, Air India has developed indirect recognition programs to promote customer-centric behaviors while encouraging accountability by taking ownership of outcomes.”

Further, the executive stated to the media, “We are committed to adopting the Tata Code of Conduct by eliminating biases and prejudices throughout the organization.” “We encourage interactive feedback and want employees to focus on facts and statistics rather than rumors and speculation,” said the company.

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