{"id":2417,"date":"2018-08-20T15:42:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T10:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:02","slug":"kerala-man-fired-by-gulf-firm-for-derogatory-remark-on-kerala-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/kerala-man-fired-by-gulf-firm-for-derogatory-remark-on-kerala-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala man fired by Gulf firm for derogatory remark on Kerala floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UAE based Gulf firm Lulu Group International fired a man from Kerala after he allegedly made insensitive remarks on the flood conditions in the calamity hit state of Kerala. The man named Chery Palayattu worked as a cashier at the company&#8217;s Oman branch. After posting a social media status where he mocked the sanitation requirements of the people of Kerala, the firm issued a termination letter with immediate effect. The firm announced that its move was to send a loud and clear message to society about its stance in such sensitive issues.<\/p>\n<p>Palayattu later apologised for his remark.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of Lulu Group, MA Yusuf Ali, who is also from Kerala, has donated 9.23 million UAE dirhams for relief operations in the flood-hit state.<\/p>\n<p>[Cover image representational]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palayattu later apologised for his remark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":2418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}