October 17th, 2008 
Aman
Alliance After alliance between Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines, the former had decided to sack its 1900 staff members to cut the costs. Both the companies were loosing crores of rupees per month because of higher fuel prices. They had decided to rationalize the flights and end some international operations. After it Jet Airways management had issued sacking orders of 1900 staff members to keep the company afloat. It had led to protests in major cities and some politicians including Aviation Minister had demanded the probe into the matter.
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Protests And Criticism MNS chief Raj Thackeray had threatened that his party workers will disrupt the Jet’s operations if the employees were not reinstated. On the other hand Labour Ministry had also showed its concerns and had decided to go ahead after the meeting with the Jet management and sacked workers on Friday. Jet Airways management had decided to sack employees across all the sections who were either probationers or had served for less than six months. The announcement had led to protests by the sacked employees in the major cities. More that 50 employees had demonstrated at Indira Gandhi International Airport in the Capital. Even the Oil Minister Murli Deora had launched a direct attack on Jet Airways Chief Naresh Goyal.
Reversal Of Order But everyone was astonished to see the development when Jet Airways Chairman Naresh Goyal apologized for the sacking move on Friday and requested them to resume work. He said that though the management had decided to sack the employees but it is his personal decision to reinstate them and work together to make Jet Airways a big company. Civilian Aviation Minister Praful Patel has welcomed Goyal’s decision of taking back the staff. He said that he had talked to him to rethink about the move. But on the other hand Goyal asked the sacked employees to return to work from today (Friday) because he did not wanted ‘to see tears in the eyes’ of his employees who are like his ‘children’ to him.
Politics A race has started between politicians to take credit for the reinstatement of the sacked employees. At one hand Praful Patel is saying that his words have forced the Jet Chairman to roll back his decision. One the other hand some people have said that it is the result of the tough stand taken by Raj Thackeray. But Goyal has said that he has not reversed the move because of any kind of political pressure.
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