Chevron boasts, FG can’t dictate how we run our policy

Chevron replaces sacked Nigerians with Americans

By allcitynews.ng

Chevron Nigeria has sacked 600 Nigerian workers and replaced them with Americans.

Just as the management allegedly boasted that Federal Government can’t dictate how they run their policy in Nigeria.

They boasted that the instruction by Federal Government against retrenchment over COVID-19 is not binding on them Chevron management.

Hiding under the pretence of restriction of COVID-19 guidelines, the management locked gate against 2000 workers.

The locked out workers were told to reapply while 600 of them have been pencilled down for sack.

Chevron Management who used COVID-19 work-from-home experiment since commencement of coronavirus in March this year, want to capitalised on that by trying to replace Nigerians with Americans who are to directly from America.

Noting that they can work remotely from America, the management then decided to embark on using such workers from America thereby trying to jeopardise the plan of Federal Government on job creation.

It would be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government few months ago made the creation of one million jobs per year a cornerstone of his administration. The government even went further by approving the recruitment of over 1,000 employees to the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

It would also be recall that the move by Chevron is against the instruction of PMB when he warned companies against sacking Nigerian workers under the guise of Covid 19.

However, Chevron Management allegedly beat their chest that the President of Nigeria cannot dictate to them how to run the company.

The 600 workers that are being sacked are primarily lower cadre employees whose salaries are negligible when compared with the jumbo emoluments being paid to their American expatriates’ counterparts.

The same management refused peaceful resolution by the leadership of National PENGASSAN.

PENGASSAN had earlier appealed to Chevron Management to suspend the process and allow both parties to reach agreement on an amicable voluntary separation exercise such that workers may opt to exit but this conciliatory offer was rebuffed.

Rather than listening to PENGASSAN on peaceful resolution, Chevron management gave all the 2,000 workers notification letters, telling them that their services were no longer required by Chevron and those interested can apply afresh for new jobs wherein 600 of them would be subsequently declared redundant and their appointment terminated.