A Dubai-based company is planning to pay back a percentage of salary deduction that it imposed to employees during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

Danube Group has announced that it will pay back 30 percent of the salary deducted to their employees’ paycheck.

The Dubai-based company is reportedly the first company in the Middle East to do this kind of initiative.

It also announced rehiring of over 350 people.

“Our Group has been doing considerably well, Rizwan Sajan, Founder and Chairman of Danube Group told Gulf Today. “Of course, there had been some hitches along the way due to this pandemic and we found that nothing was unmanageable on account of the determination of our employees to sail through this biological and economic disaster intact.”

“On top of that, we feel it is our responsibility to return the amount as I was really feeling sorry about this whole deduction process. Trust me not even once the salary of our staff is delayed in the last 27 years and this deduction was first time in Danube’s history. Hence, I am extremely happy,” he added.