The Chief executives of the banks in Nigeria have agreed to
suspend the plan mass sack of workers at the end of Bankers Committee meeting
Thursday in Abuja.
The decision was taken at a meeting they had in Abuja
yesterday June 9th.
Addressing newsmen at the end of the meeting, the Managing
Director/CEO of Standard Chartered, Nigeria,
Mrs Bola Adesola, said
obviously
the banks understand the implication of people not being in employment and will
suspend their mass retrenchment plans but will not hesitate to fire any of its
worker who under-performs.
“We know what the
situation is like in the country, so we are looking of the ways of ensuring
that we minimise any exits from our institutions.
There will always be exit as you know, there are issues of
fraud and scam but, as a matter of fact, is something that we discussed in the
past where the governor prevailed on the banks to minimise any exit from the institutions.
So we noted the market sentiments and I am sure, going
forward, it will be different. And, like I said, we must also recognise that
there will be reasons why people will leave and it is not only in the banking
industry, even the telecom industry had this type of situation before. But it’s
something that we should manage.” she said
The minister of labour and productivity, Chris Ngige has earlier
threatened to revoke license of any bank that continue with the mass sack of
workers early this week.
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