{"id":449,"date":"2007-12-14T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=449"},"modified":"2007-12-14T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T19:59:00","slug":"sc-to-decide-whether-pilots-are-workmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2007\/12\/sc-to-decide-whether-pilots-are-workmen.html","title":{"rendered":"SC to decide whether pilots are workmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">New Delhi:<\/span> The Supreme Court will decide whether pilots are workmen and if they can claim benefits under law in case of premature termination of their employment.<br \/>An apex court bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhan on a petition filed by Jet Airways today stayed a Bombay High Court order directing the Central Government to refer a dispute between the airline and its sacked pilot senior commander Cedric D&#8217;Silva to the Central Industrial Tribunal.<br \/>It also issued notice to the Union Government through Ministry of Labour, along with Regional Labour Commissioner, Conciliation Officer, and D&#8217;Silva &#8212; who had challenged Jet Airways&#8217; order terminating his services as a pilot before the High Court.<br \/>The High Court had observed that the existing position in law was that all pilots, whether co-pilot or chief pilot, were workmen as they performed highly skilled technical work.<br \/>Opposing the High Court order, Jet Airways in its appeal said senior commanders, being pilots-in-command, were incharge of the entire crew of the aircraft and also exercised full managerial and supervisory powers with regard to ground personnel, government authorities and even passengers.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">13\/12\/07 PTI\/Economic Times<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court will decide whether pilots are workmen and if they can claim benefits under law in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}