New Delhi: Air India on Monday decided to pay compensation ranging from Rs 90,000 to Rs 10 lakh to kin of its employees who succumb to Covid-19.
As per the letter, accessed by ETV Bharat, permanent employee's kin will receive Rs 10 lakh, fixed term contract employees engaged directly by the airline will be paid Rs 5 lakh and the casual employees who worked for upto a year will get compensation with Rs Rs 90,000 if they lose their life due to coronavirus.
If the deceased worker was employed through a contractor or service provider, his or her family or legal heir will be paid an amount equivalent to the gross salary of two months.
"In view of the prevalent Covid-19 pandemic, many employees of the company are getting COVID positive and some of the employees have also succumbed to this pandemic," an internal letter to regional directors of all the four regions read.
"In view of the above to safeguard the interests of the families, it has been decided to make an Ad-hoc payment to the family legal heir of employees, who die during the period of COVID-19," the letter further stated.