ISLAMABAD: Joint Action Committee of PIA Employees (JACPIAE) during
an emergency meeting has termed the increase of only 10-20 per cent in
salaries as meager and a pathetic joke with emotions of PIA employees
in time ever-escalating inflation.
In a statement issued here
on Monday, JACPIE expressed its severe reservations on PIA Board of
Directors’ decision and demanded 100 per cent raise in salaries as the
salaries of employees working in public and semi-public sector have
been increased by 80 percent in past two years even though their
organization have been incurring losses.
The statement said
that it is not only unjustified to use PIA financial losses as a shield
to ignore the financial needs of PIA employees when the inflation is
rising at rapid pace but it is also a violation of human rights to
deprive them of their due share in terms of satisfactory salaries.
ACPAIE
further demanded the PIA administration to review and increase the
pension of retired PIA employees besides making daily-wages employees
permanent who are working in PIA for many years hoping to get permanent. Online
