Supreme Court of India

Air India Cabin Crew Assn. & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2011] 15 S.C.R. 843
Bench Altamas Kabir and Cyriac Joseph JJ.
Decided 17 November 2011

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we are unable to accept the further submissions made on behalf of the appellants that they had been discriminated against in any way on account of the H 876 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [2011] 15 (ADDL.) S.C.R. A decision in Nergesh Meerza's case and Yeshaswinee Merchant's case.

Judgment, page 33

From the headnote

Service Law - Conditions of Service - Alteration of, permissibility - Air India Cabin crew - Whether the management of Air India was entitled to alter the service conditions of Flight Pursers and Air Hostesses, despite several bilateral agreements arrived at between Air India and its workmen represented by the Air lnqia Cabin Crew Association, and the Executive cadre of In-Flight Pursers and Air Hostesses - Held: It is, in fact, the prerogative of the O Management to place an employee in a position where he would pe able to contribute the most to the Company - Hence, the Air India was at

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