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SME Times News Bureau | 16 Oct, 2019
Rejecting the employees' demand for higher wage revision, the state-run
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on Tuesday said workers could not be
treated at par with officers or executives in salaries and perks.
"Workmen
cannot be at par with officers on salaries and perks. We hope this
realization will percolate to the employees sooner to make them call off
their indefinite strike," HAL Chief Financial Officer C. B.
Ananthakrishnan told reporters here.
The strike by about 20,000
HAL workforce entered the second day, grounding the defence behemoth's
operations at all its 9 locations across the country.
Reiterating
that the company would not offer more than 11 per cent and 20-22 per
cent hike in perks for the two grades of workmen, Ananthakrishnan said
there was no scope to go beyond its offer as part of the 5-year wage
revision, which is retrospective from January 2017.
"As of now, I
don't see we have room to go beyond what we have offered, the CFO said
and hoped the employees' unions would accept the offer and call off the
strike to resume work.
The unions have sought a wage revision on
par with what is given to the executives, which is a 35 per cent hike in
gross salary and a 110-140 per cent hike in perks.
The wage revision is due since January 1, 2017, as the previous two revisions were in 2012 and 2007 for 5 years, respectively.
The
55-year-old aerospace major has production complexes in Bengaluru in
Karnataka, Hyderabad in Telengana, Koraput in Odisha, Korwa, Kanpur and
Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and Nashik in Maharashtra.
About 10,000
employees work in the company's Bengaluru production complex and the
remaining 10,000 in eight locations across the country.
"As talks
and reconciliation efforts with the management failed on our demands,
especially wage revision, we are on an indefinite strike since Monday as
per the notice we served on September 30 in compliance with the labour
laws," HAL's 9 trade unions' general secretary S. Chandrasekhar told
IANS here.
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