After withdrawing the lockout in Haileyburia Tea Estates, Peerumade Hills, another plantation - the POABS group in Vandiperiyar in Idukki, distributed a month’s pending salary to workers at the tea plantations.

According to High Range Plantation Employees Union (INTUC) president Cyriac Thomas, “Before Onam, the group distributed one month’s salary to the workers, providing relief to them. A meeting will be held soon to discuss the salary and other benefits-related issues in the POABS group.”