{"id":25903,"date":"2019-04-12T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=25903"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:30:37","slug":"liat-wants-more-than-six-per-cent-salary-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/liat-wants-more-than-six-per-cent-salary-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"LIAT wants more than six per cent salary cut"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The cash-strapped Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, says despite pilots and its workers across all its destinations agreeing to a six per cent salary cut, the airline is still facing a severe financial problem and may require additional salary cuts from its employees.<\/p>

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According to an internal document seen by the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), following a shareholders\u2019 meeting in St. Vincent and the Grenadines last Friday, the regional airline said that the six per cent cut did not go far enough.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe shareholders are of the view that this proposal did not go far enough and that the six per cent cut did not meet the immediate cost reduction objectives of the company at this time.\u201d<\/p>

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The document said that the shareholders are \u2018considering additional measures to address the financial challenges of the airline and that it would continue to update staff on discussions and the proposed measures that will be agreed upon\u201d.<\/p>

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Efforts to get an official comment from the airline, have so far proven futile.<\/p>\n

Last month, pilots employed with the regional airline agreed to a less than 10 per cent salary cut in a bid to keep the airline in the air.<\/p>

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The shareholder governments of the airline are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines and they have been seeking to get other Caribbean countries to contribute a total of US$5.4 million in emergency funding need to keep the airline in the sky.<\/p>\n

At the same time, 11 destinations had been given until March 15, to respond to the airline\u2019s minimal revenue guarantee (MRG) proposals.<\/p>

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Under and MRG model, it is likely that a few flights may be cut if the government is not prepared to fund them with a guarantee.<\/p>

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Trade unions representing the airline\u2019s workers at its 15 destinations, had during a six-hour meeting in Barbados with Prime Minister Mia Mottley, her St. Vincent and the Grenadines counterpart, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, agreed in principle to a six per cent salary cut, pending further deliberations with their members.<\/p>\n

President of the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIAPA), Carl Burke, said last month that during a meeting with LIAT a request had been made for the 10 per cent pay cut across the board and that the pilots \u201cwrote to them and said we did not have the confidence in LIAT\u2019s management to take us out (of this)\u2026 and we were very cautious about making an investment in the company at this time.<\/p>\n

He said that pilots \u201cactually voted\u201d on the salary cut and which has since been communicated to Prime Minister Mottley.<\/p>\n

The workers had also agreed to allow LIAT to suspend its matching contributions to the five per cent deductions from their wages for a pension fund scheme.<\/p>\n

The Antigua-based Observer radio reported Friday that there seems to have been a misunderstanding between the workers and LIAT management regarding the payment cuts.<\/p>\n

It said that the workers were of the impression that the salary cuts would come from their basic salaries while LIAT thought the six per cent cut would be from all the earnings of the worker.<\/p>\n

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