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MTN Nigeria Sacks OVER 250 Long-Serving Workers, Others...See Details


MTN Nigeria Sacks OVER 250 Long-Serving Workers, Others...See Details 

Telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria, has hit hard at its workforce, knocking off several long-serving members of staff.  


South African telecoms firm, MTN, on Friday, sacked 280 of its employees in Nigeria, in a major job cut that affected about 15% of the company’s entire Nigerian workforce.
 
According to Premium Times, those affected by the move include some 200 permanent employees and about 80 contract staff across various cadres, ranging from new graduates to senior managers, multiple sources revealed.
 
Many of those sacked spent up to 15 years with the company having joined MTN as it opened its business in Nigeria in 2001.
 
Sources said affected workers were given a dismal severance of 75% of their gross monthly income multiplied by the number of years with the company.
 
“Given that the company is about 16 years old in Nigeria, the severance package brought pain and discontent among the affected staff,” one source said.
 
“With the payoff structure, senior managers with 15 years of service were left with about N15 million. Most of the staff got less than N5 million.”
 
MTN Nigeria recorded nearly $1 billion in profit in 2016. However, the telecoms firm was heavily fined by the Nigerian government for failing to disconnect 5.2 million unregistered subscribers.
 
The spokesperson for the company, Funso Aina, could not be reached for comments on Monday.
 
But a source familiar with the latest downsizing said 200 of those affected had earlier agreed to leave the company voluntarily.
 
The source said the sackings were as a result of “the changing dynamics of the telecoms industry in recent times”.
 
The source said the company introduced the voluntary severance scheme, VSS, to provide a window for one week in April, for persons who have served in MTN for five years and above to take up.
 
Those who decided to leave under the VSS were to be paid the equivalent of their three weeks gross salary for every year they worked with MTN.
 
“What it means is that if one worked in MTN for five years, one would be paid three weeks of their gross salaries times five,” the source said.
 
Eventually, all 280 staff were disengaged under the VSS and paid their benefits, the source said.
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