{"id":357571,"date":"2020-06-16T10:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T05:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357571"},"modified":"2020-06-16T10:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T05:27:44","slug":"gulf-businessman-books-charter-flight-to-fly-staff-to-kerala-becomes-a-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gulf-businessman-books-charter-flight-to-fly-staff-to-kerala-becomes-a-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf businessman books charter flight to fly staff to Kerala, becomes a hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERNAKULAM: R. Harikumar, a Dubai-based businessman, is a now a hero among Kerala&#8217;s three million-strong expat network. His 120 staffers, distressed over the coronavirus pandemic, flew back to the southern state in a chartered flight booked by the businessman free of cost on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Those who returned will be still treated as employees. Harikumar has reportedly given them a three-month off to employees. They will be paid a month&#8217;s salary. They have also been assured return tickets and allowed an option to work from the Coimbatore unit of Harikumar&#8217;s Elite Group of Companies.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the 120 employees, the Sharjah-Kochi flight accommodated those registered under the covid-19 task force of All Kerala College Alumni Forum (Akcaf), an expat Malayalee network, and 50 people who were stranded outside the airport without money to buy tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERNAKULAM: R. Harikumar, a Dubai-based businessman, is a now a hero among Kerala&#8217;s three million-strong expat network. His 120 staffers, distressed over the coronavirus pandemic, flew back to the southern state in a chartered flight booked by the businessman free of cost on Sunday. Those who returned will be still treated as employees. Harikumar has reportedly given them a three-month off to employees. They will be paid a month&#8217;s salary. They have also been assured return tickets and allowed an option to work from the Coimbatore unit of Harikumar&#8217;s Elite Group of Companies. Besides the 120 employees, the Sharjah-Kochi flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}