KE sacks 53 employees due to poor performance
June 27, 2014
Karachi
The services of 53 employees from different departments of K-Electric (KE) were terminated on Thursday for what the utility officials described as “poor progress and performance”.
The KE spokesperson claimed that services of more than 50 employees were terminated because of their poor progress and performance. “This was nothing exceptional since performance-based decisions are taken regularly in the greater interest of the company.”
The decision has come just a few days before Ramzan is set to begin, bringing with it strong criticism from the KE’s labour union which claimed that the workers had been forcefully terminated.
The KE official while talking to The News said the company monitored the role played by its staff and officers on an annual basis and made decisions based on their performance throughout the year regarding their promotion and increase in salary. He said during these evaluations the company also decided which employees failed to deliver fruitful results and if their services should be extended or not.
He said like every year, the KE had conducted a performance review this year after which more than 268 employees had been promoted and about 4,900 more had received salary increments.
Consequently, he said, it was also decided that the company did not need the services of these 53 persons and they were hence suspended from employment.
“The KE, before hiring any employee, always gives time to that particular person to improve his quality of services and deliver as per the need of the company,” he said. “However, if they fail to cope up with the situation then the management uses its right to hire other new and competent persons rather than continue with same old and incompetent staff.”
According to the labour union, this decision of the management is in violation of a ruling of a Sindh High Court ruling and of human rights.
On the other hand, the chairman CBA Muhammad Ikhlaq Khan claimed that such a decision right before Ramzan would force the families of the sacked employees to starve. He said most of the employees belonged in recovery, meter inspection, maintenance, grid operation and distribution departments.
“Such decisions of the power utility would create serious economic repercussions for the affected families. According to the CBA, it was forceful termination and questioned how affected families would survive in Ramzan and what they would do on Eid.
The services of 53 employees from different departments of K-Electric (KE) were terminated on Thursday for what the utility officials described as “poor progress and performance”.
The KE spokesperson claimed that services of more than 50 employees were terminated because of their poor progress and performance. “This was nothing exceptional since performance-based decisions are taken regularly in the greater interest of the company.”
The decision has come just a few days before Ramzan is set to begin, bringing with it strong criticism from the KE’s labour union which claimed that the workers had been forcefully terminated.
The KE official while talking to The News said the company monitored the role played by its staff and officers on an annual basis and made decisions based on their performance throughout the year regarding their promotion and increase in salary. He said during these evaluations the company also decided which employees failed to deliver fruitful results and if their services should be extended or not.
He said like every year, the KE had conducted a performance review this year after which more than 268 employees had been promoted and about 4,900 more had received salary increments.
Consequently, he said, it was also decided that the company did not need the services of these 53 persons and they were hence suspended from employment.
“The KE, before hiring any employee, always gives time to that particular person to improve his quality of services and deliver as per the need of the company,” he said. “However, if they fail to cope up with the situation then the management uses its right to hire other new and competent persons rather than continue with same old and incompetent staff.”
According to the labour union, this decision of the management is in violation of a ruling of a Sindh High Court ruling and of human rights.
On the other hand, the chairman CBA Muhammad Ikhlaq Khan claimed that such a decision right before Ramzan would force the families of the sacked employees to starve. He said most of the employees belonged in recovery, meter inspection, maintenance, grid operation and distribution departments.
“Such decisions of the power utility would create serious economic repercussions for the affected families. According to the CBA, it was forceful termination and questioned how affected families would survive in Ramzan and what they would do on Eid.
