Following a meeting earlier today to discuss the future of LIAT and its workers, reports say the airline’s employees have agreed to a reduction in their severance payouts.
Reportedly, Antigua-based staff members of the insolvent regional carrier have agreed to a 30 per cent cut in the severance now due to them. Other media reports say this concession is to be considered the workers’ investment in a replacement airline.
Meanwhile, Browne and David Massiah, the General Secretary of the Antigua and Barbuda Workers Union, reportedly held discussions on a number of other outstanding issues. These included an offer to ask LIAT’s creditors to agree to a 50 per cent reduction in liabilities due to them.
Browne, according to media reports, also placed on the table a proposal for staff to acquire land for agricultural use, as well as an invitation to apply to the Entrepreneurial Development Fund.
Further discussions were reportedly held on the waiver of duties for the airline’s employees, who have been laid off since March, when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down passenger services.
The Prime Minister took part in the meeting via the Zoom platform.
This article was first published by 268 TODAY
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