Fiji Airports have confirmed that a few more air traffic controllers returned to work and all international and domestic flights remain on schedule.
The Company says the Arbitration Court met yesterday and dismissed Fiji Public Service Association’s and some controllers’ application to uplift the return to work order and restated its orders of Tuesday for controllers to forthwith report to work.
Fiji Airports has been repeatedly requesting and urging controllers under strike to return to work from 18th March.
They say numerous meetings have been held and numerous letters have been written for the workers to return to work.
Fiji Airports says some controllers remain in disobedience of lawful orders having requested for 12 days for controllers on strike to return to work.
The company says they have no choice but to issue suspension letters to some controllers for their continued disobedience of lawful orders despite Fiji Airports best efforts and will institute disciplinary inquiry against these workers.
They say due process will be followed.
On Wednesday the Minister for Employment Parveen Bala declared some of the controllers’ action to take coordinated leave from Monday 18 March an unlawful strike.
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