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British Gas sacks 51 Nigerian workers

Posted by 9jabook.com on September 1, 2009 at 9:48pm
There is palpable fear among the staff of British Gas Nigeria, (BG) following the sack of 51 officials and middle level managers from the company. The sacked workers account for about 25 percent of its Nigerian workforce. advertisement: http://www.9jamovies.com a utube4naija project ! The company’s General Manager, Policy and Corporate Affairs Paul Arinze, who confirmed the action however denied that there was a mass sack in the company. He explained that the action taken by the company was not peculiar to the British Gas alone. According to Arinze, the workers' layoff was not just about global economy or about oil price, it was about responding to global changes. "We are offering new jobs to people, some are asked to go, some people have applied while some have not. The entire reorganisation is not about sacking people; we are offering new jobs to people. BG Nigeria has refocused its long-term strategy in line with policy change and global realities. "This has resulted in high-grading of jobs and fully localising senior management. In that process, roles have changed, new ones created and a few dropped. Our staff had exercised choices along those lines," he said. A source close to the company disclosed that British Gas Nigeria on August 17, 2009 carried out the mass sack and that the laying-off of senior company managers would follow soon. BG Group Plc, the parent company had announced on July, 28, 2009 that it was cutting funding of the OK LNG project and switching investments to develop newly acquired assets in Australia and Brazil. CEO of BG Group, Frank Chapman, told reporters on a conference call that his company's investment in Nigeria's gas sector will be gradually reduced due to Nigeria's government change of priority to domestic gas projects. On account of its employment practices and a new OK LNG's management restructuring introduced by OKLNG Shareholders Agreement (SHA), British Gas is currently defending a N175 million legal action at the Lagos High Court instituted by an ex-employee alleging breach of employment contract.
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