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PETALING JAYA: Today Malindo Air staff were urged to file complaints for wrongful termination, following the reduction of some 2,000 employees who were fired from the airline on Friday.
The National Union of Flight Attendants (Nufam) said that “the compensation and the conditions of dismissal are very unreasonable.”
Nufam Undersecretary General Shashi Kumar said: “We have been informed that many staff members have not received their salaries for months, but have been suddenly fired.”
He said Socso should investigate Malindo for claims that the airline received about RM3 million under an employee retention program that should have prevented layoffs for six months.
Social media was full of messages from Malindo staff saying goodbye on Friday.
“Today is the darkest day of my flying life,” Lee Hyueri said on Facebook. “… Sorry to be sentimental here tonight. I thought I had mentally prepared (myself) for this, but when it happened, I can’t (put) this sadness into words. “
‘A nightmare come true’
One Twitter user with the hajaku.co account described the layoffs as a “nightmare come true.”
Another Twitter user by the name of Altaf Moghni said he was saddened that his friends and lotmates were affected, and said that some of them had just started a family or bought a new car.
Malindo’s pilot, Captain Ghazi Azri, made his farewell announcement “from the cockpit” on Facebook, saying: “Signing M03039. It has been an incredible journey in the service of heaven with you. I’m lowering my wings Soon he will climb higher and stronger again. “
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the aviation industry to a standstill, with Malindo’s downsizing being the latest in a series of cost-cutting measures for troubled airlines.
However, Shashi noted that the government had already said that companies could not lay off their workers due to the pandemic “but you can see for yourself what is happening.”
He added: “What good is it that the government allocates billions of ringgit to all these companies, but they still lay off their employees? It shows how weak the monitoring is. “
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