Mobile telecommunications firm, MTN Nigeria, has sacked
about 280 of its workers across its different operational units.
Punch reported that the affected workers left the company on
Friday, having embraced the firm’s offer of voluntary disengagement, which was
offered to employees who had served for a minimum of five years.
It was further learnt that some of the affected employees
had been with the company since its inception in the country in 2001 and that
the management felt that their knowledge of the industry had become obsolete.
A source in the company told Punch on Monday, “MTN offered a
package to workers who have stayed for five years and above a voluntary exit
package because it felt that most of them are not able to contribute much to
the development of the company going forward.
“If, for instance, you have kids, you can’t compare the
knowledge you have about the mobile phone with what they can do about telecoms
services; they are more dexterous; so, the company wants to hire younger people
who can keep pace with evolving trends in the industry instead of retaining
those whose knowledge is limited to what they knew 16 years ago.”
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