LAHORE – PIA gets yet another financial blow as 900 sacked employees ofPakistan International Airlines (PIA) have been reinstated after theissuance of stay order.
The employees were terminated from their posts following severalaccusations including fake degree, fraud and absence.
Details suggest that at least 388 employees were sacked for possessing afake degree while 94 over forgery and fraud.
Overall, 900 PIA employees have taken stay order from various courts andNational Industrial Relation Commission. They belong to engineering,finance, flight service and other departments.
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Sources say that PIA’s sacked chief operations officer, Zia Qadir Qureshi,also tried to get a stay order. His contract was terminated last monthbecause he could not perform his duties according to work standards of thePIA.
It is pertinent to mention here that the employees who succeed in attainingthe stay order do not perform their duties at the office but receive thesalary and other privileges.
