Director- Whether excessive delegation of power.
Air India Corporations Act 1953, S. 3-Air India
International and Indian Air Lines-Whether separate and
distinct entities ... Hostesses employed by Air India were governed by
Regulations 46 and 47 of Air India Employees Service
Regulations and the Air Hostesses employed
Director, Air India,
Air India Bldg., Bombay
The managing Director, Indian Air lines,
Air lines House, New Delhi.
Subject: Discrimination against Air hostesses in Air ... Air India and Indian Air lines should also be allowed
to serve till the age of 58 uears.
ii) That the air hostesses should
distinct cadres have been existing in
Air India Corporation, comprising male Air Flight
Pursers and female Air Hostesses, each with their
own terms and conditions ... 30th May, 1977, between Air India and the Air
India Cabin Crew Association, the post of Deputy
Chief Air Hostess was abolished and the service
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4. In view of the policy of Air India that henceforth
Air Hostesses recruited anywhere will be treated in the same
manner ... Consti-
tution of India, in that Air India discriminates between the
Air Hostesses and the officers like the petitioner of Indian
origin and of foreign
Director, Air India,
Air India Bldg., Bombay
The managing Director, Indian Air lines,
Air lines House, New Delhi.
Subject: Discrimination against Air hostesses in Air ... Air India and Indian Air lines should also be allowed
to serve till the age of 58 uears.
ii) That the air hostesses should
grave suspicions regarding his
private conduct and behaviour with the Air Hostesses of the
appellant-Corporation.
The Labour Court held one the preliminary question that ... order could not be challenged. The respondent had
to deal with Air hostesses in the performance of his duties
and if the appellant
Equivalent citations: AIR 2010 SUPREME COURT 302, 2010 (1) SCC 376, 2009 AIR SCW 7487, 2010 LAB. I. C. 799, 2010 (1) AIR KANT ... NIJJAR, J.
1. Leave granted.
2. The appellants are working as Air Hostesses with
respondent/Indian Airlines (hereinafter referred to as the
Airlines). They were
after the marriage the appellant
herein resigned from the post of Air Hostess in Cathay Pacific
Airlines and after dispute between them ... dispute that before their marriage, the
appellant-wife was working as Air Hostess with Cathay Pacific
Airlines and getting sizeable income. It is also brought
fault with the rule
which would terminate the services of Air Hostesses on the third
pregnancy with two existing children, and held the rule both ... would be in the larger interest of the health of the Air
Hostess concerned as also for the good upbringing of the
children. Secondly, ......... when
class."
b) Now, we would next refer to the decision in Air India v.
Nergesh Meerza and others [(1981) 4 SCC 335], which propounds ... Air India Employees' Service Regulations was challenged,
which provides for retiring age of an Air-Hostess. The Court (in
paragraph 39) summarized thus
