{"id":13572,"date":"2025-05-15T06:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13572"},"modified":"2025-05-15T06:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:08:55","slug":"ats-pays-out-over-6-million-in-compensation-to-workers-affected-by-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13572","title":{"rendered":"ATS pays out over $6 million in compensation to workers affected by COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for former and current workers of the Air Terminal Services that were affected by COVID-19 as ATS announced today that they will pay out $6.08 million in compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Professor Biman Prasad while announcing the payment says this compensation is more than a payout \u2014 it is a gesture of reconciliation, of acknowledgment, and of respect.<\/p>\n<p>He says under this Coalition Government\u2019s leadership they are now able to do what is right with a payment of 1.5 years\u2019 gross base pay to reinstated employees.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Prasad says this includes ex gratia payment of $5,000 gross to each of the four medically unfit employees.<\/p>\n<p>He says as well as ex gratia payment of $5,000 gross to each of the 61 retirees and voluntary early retirees.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Prime Minister says pro-rata ex gratia payments to contracted employees as follows: $8,000 gross each for those terminated and rejoined before 31 December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He says this also means $6,000 each for those terminated and rejoined from 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>FIJI VILLAGE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for former and current workers of the Air Terminal Services that were affected by COVID-19 as ATS announced today that they will pay out $6.08 million in compensation. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Professor Biman Prasad while announcing the payment says this compensation is more than a payout \u2014 it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13574,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13572\/revisions\/13574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}