Airport privisatisation: Government mulling amending manpower clause
With AAI employees deciding to go on strike on March 11 to protest privatisation, the government is mulling amending the manpower absorption clause for potential private operators, and may ask them to retain all existing employees post-privatisation.
Official sources today said that the proposed tweaking of norms was to allay apprehensions of the employees' union that the private players might retrench workers in big numbers once the management and operations of the four airports, which are being privatised, come under their control.
"Under the OMDA (operations, management and development agreement) for Delhi and Mumbai Airports, the private operators were to absorb 60 per cent of the then existing workforce, which may be amended with a provision for 100 per cent absorption for the current round of privatisation," the sources said here.
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