bhubaneswar in an effort to dispose of rs 500 and rs 1000 currency notes some private companies are allegedly paying monthly salaries to their employees in cash instead of transferring the money to their bank accounts some apparently have been even resorting to making advance paymenton november 9 a citybased private organization handed out salaries to its employees in cash day after prime minister narendra modi banned rs 500 and rs 1000 notes the money is normally transferred to their bank accounts but this month it was different most of the employees got their salaries in rs 500 denominationearlier employees with monthly salary of less than rs 20000 would be paid in cash but this time all of us were given hard cash i got a wad of rs 500 notes said an employee of the private firm many real estate developers in bhubaneswar paid advance cash to construction workers and for the purchase of raw material we had two months of wages pending but we were given a total of four months salary including an advance of two months said a mason in the city many hotel owners and rice millers too have been paying advance salaries to their employees to get rid of black money a source said since the cash flow is less we are unable to pay in new currency but to retain the labourers a part is being paid to them in the old rs 500 denomination as advance and another part in rs 100 a contractor saida security guard who works in a hotel in paradip was on cloud nine when the manager paid him a salary advance for 12 months last month when i requested the manager to pay me a salary advance of rs 10000 to take care of my fathers medical expenses the manager refused but on thursday the manager offered me of rs 72000 in rs 1000 denomination as salary advance for 12 months many employees received salary advance up to a year the security guard said