Sacked as CEO: Megh Pillay now resigns as Director of Air Mauritius

Sacked as CEO of Air Mauritius on October 28th, Megh Pillay, in a letter to Air Mauritius on Thursday, resigned as Director of the Boards of national airline company and of other subsidiary companies namely the Mauritius Estate Development Corporate Limited, Pointe Cotton Resort Hotel Company Ltd, Airmate Limited, Air Mauritius Holidays Limited and Mauritius Helicopter Limited. Thus, Megh Pillay did not participate in the board meeting which took place on the same day. 

His letter addressed to Board Directors states that he “came to a major disagreement with the non-executive Chairman of the Board on an issue of corporate governance by refusing to yield to the pressure to annul disciplinary proceedings against a subordinate employee whom the non-executive Chairman had appointed as a permanent employee of Air Mauritius Limited. The said employee had challenged my integrity and authority and acting upon legal advice, he was convened by Management to give his explanations before an independent Disciplinary Committee. Unfortunately, whatever is reproached to me did not meet with the same procedural fairness.”

Following his dismissal as Chief Executive Officer by representatives of the government – which owns a majority of the shareholding – Mr Pillay says it would be inappropriate for him to continue to serve as Director of both companies.

“It has been a great honour to lead once again the Executive Leadership team of top professionals and all the hard-working capable women and men constituting the administrative, technical and operational teams that make of the Air Mauritius Group a successful airline and a national pride,” signed off the former CEO.