The national air transport company, RwandAir, has decided to reduce the salaries of all its staff following the government’s measure banning all flights of its planes around the world.
“In order to safeguard the future of the company and avoid staff layoffs, RwandAir will have to implement several tem”porary measures to reduce expenses, including salary cuts. ” According to a RwandAir press release posted online this Sunday.
The reduction in net wages is between 8 and 65 per cent depending on the current scales. The lowest paid will suffer a reduction of 8% while the highest paid will lose 65% of their monthly take-home pay. The Executive Director, Yvonne Manzi Makolo, served this on all staff in a letter she signed on April 24, 2020.
In addition to this measure, others must come into force in order to deal with the current situation, as the letter mentioned reveals.
The Chief Executive Officer, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and all Directors will not receive their respective salaries for the month of April, the suspension of pilots’ employment contracts is extended, the employment contracts of non-essential staff are suspended until further notice, all allowances are suspended, with a few exceptions, some salaries will be aligned to local scales.
As of March 20, 2020 at 23:59, RwandAir has suspended all its flights worldwide for 30 days. This decision was taken to comply with the government’s measures to combat the coronavirus.
As the containment was extended until the end of April, RwandAir asked customers who had purchased tickets to postpone their reservations to a later date.
Gérard Rugambwa
