Notice to Indian Airlines for recovering salaries of grounded airhostesses

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued contempt notice to public carrier Indian Airlines for allegedly recovering salaries of airhostesses who were grounded for having tipped the weight scale above the permissible limit.
The “overweight” airhostesses, left with the thin choice of “either battle the bulge or face the axe” given by a Single Bench in June, had appealed before a Division Bench led by Chief Justice M K Sharma against the verdict. Admitting the appeal, the Bench had restrained the airline on July 13 from recovering salaries paid to the airhostesses when they were grounded.
However, the staffers have now moved the court alleging that the airline had indeed gone ahead and recovered the salaries in violation of the court order. “The July 13 order was meant as an interim relief for the arihostesses. The court had specifically directed the airline not to recover the salaries paid during the period till the litigation is over,” Arvind Sharma, counsel for the airhostesses, told Newsline.
06/09/07 Delhi Newsline