Bandaru Dattatreya: Will probe Kingfisher Airlines’s PF contribution

The labour ministry will soon launch an investigation to check whether there were any anomalies in the provident fund contributions made by Kingfisher Airlines for its employees when the carrier was functioning, the Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya has said.

“We have not examined the issue so far. I will look into that. We will examine (all the issues),” Mr Dattatreya said. An open letter written by women employees of KFA recently alleged that the company did not pay salaries, but kept depositing PF due to fear of action from the authorities. Former KFA pilot Captain Kedar Wagh said the company owes him Rs 45 lakh towards his salary dues. EPFO’s apex decision-making body, the CBT, will meet on March 17 to take stock of the situation with regard to the investments the body made into index-linked Exchange Traded Funds.