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Covid-19: After Pay Cut, GoAir Tells Staff That Portion Of March Salary Has Been Deferred To April

Only employees in Grade D and below received salaries in their entirety.

A GoAir aircraft prepares to take off at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)  
A GoAir aircraft prepares to take off at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)  

After introducing a pay cut for all employees on March 25 as the coronavirus pandemic drastically impacted the aviation sector, GoAir Chief Executive Officer Vinay Dube told the employees on Wednesday that a portion of their March's salary has been deferred to April.

"Yesterday, salaries were posted to each of your bank accounts. All employees in Grade's D and below received salaries in their entirety," Dube said in an email to employees.

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"The rest of you will see less than what you are normally used to seeing as a result of the reduction in pay I had announced earlier, but also because we have been forced to defer a portion of your accrued salaries to April," the email said.