Debt-laden Jet Airways fires 16, pay problems to persist till March

Some pilots and senior executives were paid only 75 per cent of their September salary, and are yet to be paid full salary for October

Financially distressed Jet Airways told its employees on Monday that salary delays would continue till March, as it struggles to arrange funds. The airline also continued to lay off people in small chunks, with about 16 people getting pink slips in the latest tranche, a PTI report said on Monday.

“We would like to assure you that all salary arrears would be cleared on priority so that effective April 2019 the payroll is current," Rahul Taneja, chief people officer, wrote to employees, adding that 25 per cent of September salary would be remitted on December 4.

Some pilots and senior executives were