Air India CMD Ashwani lohani on Tuesday assured its employees their interests would be ‘safeguarded’, seeking to allay their concerns over possible layoff following the Government’s decision to sell its stake in the national carrier.
In the first formal communication from the debt-laden airline’s top management since the decision to privatise it was taken, lohani told the staff,’I would like to reassure all my employees that during the process of disinvestment, the government and the airline management would like to safeguard your genuine and valid interests and ensure that suitable measures to this effect are put in place.’