We were not told about PF for many years: Jet Airways pilots

Updated On: 25 August, 2022 07:15 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma

Following this paper’s bombshell exposé in airline’s PF scheme, several expat pilots say they were kept in the dark about PF for many years and are now fighting to retrieve the money as they struggle to make ends meet

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Hundreds of foreign pilots worked with Jet Airways before it was grounded in 2019. Representation pic

A report in mid-day on the alleged PF scam involving Jet Airways employees and EPFO’s Kandivli office prompted a flurry of calls from the airline’s former expat pilots. Many of them said they were not told about their PF for many years. The pilots are now fighting to get back their Provident Fund accumulated over the years and the interest on it amid their struggle to find jobs.

The pilots’ claim comes at a time when the chief vigilance officer of the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation has been entrusted with a probe into the alleged PF settlement of Jet pilots by EPFO’s Kandivli office using fraudulent means. While Sudhir Ganvir, regional provident fund commissioner, RO, Kandivli, has been called to Delhi, his office has already suspended a social security assistant, Machindra Bamne, for allegedly receiving bribes for the settlement of Jet PF accounts in violation of rules.

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