Supreme Court did not order for staff dismissal: Mushahid Ullah The management of Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) has imposed a ban on union activities through Essential Services Act 1952, which is violation of Basic Human Rights and Industrial Relations Act 2012. Senator Sherry Rehman a member of Senate Standing Committee on Aviation referring towards this ban said the present management of PIA which mostly consists of serving officers of Air Force who are brought on deputation into the PIA, is taking unlawful actions against the Collective Bargaining Agent (CBA) that is the only elected body which represents the low grade employees. The actions of management are entirely in violation of the basic Human Rights and Industrial Relations Act 2012. She urged the PIA management to allow the elected CBA to work peacefully and smoothly in accordance with the provisions of Industrial Relations Act 2012. Earlier, the Parliamentary body criticised the manner in which...

قومی   ایئر لائن انتظامیہ کے ’’سخت فیصلوں‘‘ پر سینیٹ کی قائمہ کمیٹی کو بھی اعتراض ہے، جبکہ برطرف ملازمین انصاف کے حصول کیلئے عدالت جا پہنچے ہیں۔ غیر پیشہ ورانہ انتظامیہ کی جانب سے پائلٹس اور جہاز کے عملے سمیت 121 کی برطرفی نے پی آئی اے کا مذاق بنا دیا۔ قومی ایئر لائن کے ترجمان کا کہنا ہے کہ مزید 337 ڈسپلنری کیسز ایسے بھی ہیں جن میں ملازمین کی جانب سے جعلی تعلیمی دستاویزات جمع کرائی گئی ہیں۔ حال ہی میں سینیٹ کی قائمہ کمیٹی برائے ایوی ایشن نے پی آئی اے انتظامیہ سے ملازمین کی برطرفی کے مسئلے پر بات کی۔ کمیٹی کے اکثر ارکان نے کہا کہ اسٹاف کی برطرفی سخت فیصلہ ہے۔ کمیٹی نے 2017 میں ڈیوٹی پر برقرار رکھے گئے 12 ملازمین کی طرف اشارہ کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ پی آئی اے اگر کچھ لوگوں کے ساتھ نرم رویہ رکھتی ہے تو اس کی منیجمنٹ باقیوں کے ساتھ بھی برابری کا سلوک کرے۔ کمیٹی کے چیئرمین سینیٹر مشاہد اللہ خان کا کہا تھا کہ پی آئی اے میں جعلی ڈگری والوں کیلئے معمولی سزائیں بھی ہیں۔ پی آئی اے منیجمنٹ نے موقف اختیار کیا کہ وہ جعلی ڈگری والوں کیخلاف سپریم کورٹ کے احکامات کی روشنی میں کارروائی کر رہی ہ...

A group of the sacked employees’ have once again appealed to CEO, PIA Air Marshal Arshad Malik to stop further issuance of illegal dismissals from service since his actions were becoming death penalty for affected people and their families. Top of Form There were two latest sad incidents reported among PIA management’s targeted degree based employees. First, the Duty Briefing Officer (DBO) Rubina Qureshi, a Senior Flying Crew member, who was genuine Degree holder but Management of PIA, dismissed her from service on fake allegations. In result, first her husband died due to cancer for not having hospital treatment because of dismissal of her wife. And now Rubina Qureshi was also paralyzed due to lack of proper treatment and medicines. Another incident was death of Noor Ul Huda (Uniform Section) who was also the victim of fake Degree case. He was collapsed soon after receiving dismissal letter while it was last year of his service before retirement. Noor Ul Huda too wa...

Termination of 121 employees from Pakistan International Airlines including Pilots, cabin crews and low ranking staff by the non-professional management has become laughing stock. Another 377 disciplinary cases were pending against various classes of employees in the PIA for submitting fake or tampered with educational documents, according to the airline spokesperson. On 7 th May the Senate Standing Committee on Aviation called upon the PIA management. The committee met for the sixth time to discuss the issue of PIA employees. Most of the committee members held that terminating staff from service was a drastic action. The Committee referred to the 12 employees who were allowed to retain their jobs in 2017. “If PIA took a lenient view for some, its management should show similar compassion to all its employees and retain them, instead of laying them off. PIA has a category of minor punishment which can be handed down to employees possessing fake degrees,” said committee chai...