Kingfisher says, it would expedite October salary to its employees
Mumbai/New Delhi: Kingfisher management on Wednesday said it would expedite salary of its employees ahead of Christmas and claimed that “most” of them had agreed to resume work from Friday.
“I am pleased to confirm that as a goodwill gesture the company will pay full October salary to all employees and we commit to paying the same prior to Christmas, 2012.” airline CEO Sanjay Aggarwal said.
The employees have been on strike since September 29 demanding payment of salary dues since March this year. The strike had led to the company declaring a lockout from October one, which was followed by suspension of their Scheduled Operator’s Permit by aviation regulator DGCA.
The airline employees, who held meetings in Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Mumbai, had yesterday rejected the offer of payment of three months’ salaries in a staggered manner as part payment of dues and insisted that it should be paid in lumpsum.
However, its Mumbai-based pilots had said they were ready to accept the deal offered by the management as a condition to resume work. Salaries have been pending for seven months.
Aggarwal had yesterday sent out emails to individual employees offering them three months salary by Diwali in mid-November, saying if they accepted the offer, they should send an acceptance note and resume work from Friday, which was objected to by the protestors.
