PHF terminates four employees

KARACHI: Four employees have been fired at the PHF Karachi office at Hockey Club of Pakistan (HCP), ‘The News’ has learnt.

They were given termination letters and salaries of the current month only.

Informed sources said that the people fired were electrician Athar Abbas, ground man Anwer Shah, supervisor Ameer Khan and head of computer section Asif Ahmed.

The reason given for their termination is that the PHF is passing through a financial crisis and does not have money to pay the salaries.

Ameer is stated to be the most senior employee among those fired. He served the PHF for 25 years. The termination letters say nothing about the dues of these employees. 

Athar had been serving for 10 years and Asif for seven years. The total amount paid to these four people comes to around Rs62,000 a month. Interestingly PHF earns as much as Rs600,000 a month through the rent of shops and offices at the HCP.

The HCP is the only property of PHF from where it earns revenue. The employees fired said their livelihood was snatched for no fault of theirs.

A source said that someone in the PHF might want to hire “their own men” and to accommodate them these four employees were made scapegoat.

The source said that an official appointed recently at a high position in PHF was taking such decisions on the pretext of financial crisis, although the PHF high ups have said time and again that they have sorted out all the financial issues.