New Delhi: Employees of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines on Wednesday decided to drag the management to court for payment of salary dues of well over eight months. Some employees even plan to ask the airline to shut down and sell its assets and clear their dues as they say their hardships are reaching levels that drove an engineer's wife to suicide late last year.
Also, there is growing anger among senior level employees against the government for refusing to act against the airline last January when a Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) financial audit had found the nearly bankrupt airline a fit case for closure due to safety fears. "Instead of acting against Kingfisher and stopping it from piling up more dues towards employees, airports and other vendors, the ministry sacked the DG who had recommended closure of the airline last January itself," fumed a senior pilot who has Rs 50-60 lakh salary dues from the airline.
S C Misra, chief coordinator of the airline's Delhi engineering base, said the employees will now petition the president, prime minister and aviation ministry about their plight.
10/01/13 Times of India
