Employees at The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle Face an Uncertain Future
With the insolvency process still dragging, employees faced grossly delayed salary payments at a time when they needed it the most.
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The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle â two well-known daily newspapers owned by beleaguered Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited (DCHL), whose recent corporate insolvency resolution process saw a few hiccups â have not been paid their salaries for the last 12 months.
According to employees that
The Wire spoke to, the salary for January 2020 is still awaited by many journalists.
“We received our salary for December 2019 in October 2020. We received nothing in November 2020. The next salary instalment we received was on December 22, 2020. That too just half of our January 2020 salary. We still havenât received the other half and we are in January 2021,” an employee of