Mass sack: Stop making workers sacrificial lambs —CANMPSSAN

The Chemical and Non-Metallic Products Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (CANMPSSAN) has decried the rate of job loss in the chemical sector through redundancy and condemned what it termed managements’ insensitivity to workers’ plights.

To this end, the union charged employers to desist from making workers the sacrificial lambs whenever there is a need to cut cost during an economic crisis or difficulties.

President of CANMPSSAN, Comrade Segun David, while reflecting on the state of the industry at the 25th Annual National Management/Industrial Relations Seminar of the union in Asaba, Delta State, said the present time is a very difficult one for Nigerian workers who have to deal with the challenges of “job loss, reduced salaries and zero appraisals at work places.

“It is an open secret that the economic effects of COVID-19 pandemic cut across all facets of life. Workers should not always be at the receiving end whenever there is a need to cut costs,” he said.

The three-day seminar, with the  theme: ‘Critical analysis of post COVID-19 on socio-economic challenges and its impact on the Organised Labour-Chemical and Non-Metallic Products experience,’ was organised to draw attention to the plights of the sector.

According to the CANMPSSAN President, workers in the sector sacrificed a lot during the lockdown to ensure survival and continuous running of some of their companies.

He said, “We therefore reject being used as a scapegoat whenever management is contemplating on cost cutting measures.

“There is a need for the stakeholders (i.e the management and the staff) to engage in meaningful deliberations that will improve input and output capacity without job losses.”

David explained that the advent of Coronavirus has reminded all the importance of taking one’s health seriously, adding that employers of labour should put measures in place to make work conducive for the entire workers.

“Workers should not always bear the brunt when there is a shortfall in finances, collaborative engagements can help us to strategize for a better future for our companies,” he stated.

The labour leader equally tasked the government to be prompt in attending to the voice of the people and take responsibility for many things going wrong in the country.

The General Manager, Human Asset Management (HAM), Dangote Cement, Femi Adekunle said that redundancy is not an easy way out for the companies as they value their workers seriously.

“Workers are our most essential part, they are the golden hen that lays the golden eggs, without them there wouldn’t be any production neither can a company survive without them. But in a situation where the company’s existence is threatened due to one problem or the other, there’s nothing that a company can do than to cut down on staff to survive,” he said.

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