New Delhi, March 28 -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Friday that it was taking emergency action to ensure pay for about 50,000 airport security officers who have gone unpaid since mid-February.

The move comes after work absences triggered disruptions at airports across the United States, leading to chaotic scenes and long security lines at screening checkpoints, news agency Reuters reported.

"(The Transportation Security Administration) has immediately begun the process of paying its workforce. TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday," DHS was quoted as saying by the agency.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would take executive action to pay the TSA workers and issued a memo directing...