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Abuse Of Expatriate Quota In Companies:how To Fight Without Unions? by NOSIKE777: 11:30am On Aug 11, 2015 |
ATTENTION ALL NIGERIAN WORKING PROFESSIONALS EMPLOYED & UNEMPLOYED! Please can someone bring this facet of corruption to GMB attention? Mr president Tackling this head on will reduce unemployment in the short &Long run!! I will volunteer to set up & head a task force to investigate, prosecute and sanction Non complying Foreign private Companies[If non exists at the moment]. Please read this article on the link below and lets brain storm and discuss a permanent solution. KINDLY SPREAD THE WORD TO ALL YOUR CONNECTIONS & NETWORKS http://nigeria.gounna.com/show/show/60721/1 EVEN THE god's FEAR A UNITED PEOPLE WITH ONE COMMON PURPOSE!!! NIGERIA WAKE UPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Abuse Of Expatriate Quota In Companies:how To Fight Without Unions? by Baldmarv(m): 11:35am On Aug 11, 2015 |
The casualisation of Nigerian workers in companies owned by foreigners operating in the country has continued unabated. But worse is the unacceptable report on the gross violation of expatriate quota laws by foreign firms, even when these legal frameworks are meant to protect the rights and privileges of Nigerian citizens. The Nigerian Immigration Act of 1963, 1972 and 1990 (Cap 171, as amended), for example, clearly spells out the due process for expatriate staff engagement and the authorised quota. The Act empowers the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council (NIPC), among other relevant authorities, to grant expatriate quota to deserving foreign companies. Approval is limited to four expatriates in the first instance, and usually for two or three years before renewal. However, the legal provisions are reportedly being breached with impunity. The Senate had sometime in 2012, for instance, decried the unjust practice of foreign companies placing their less qualified nationals in higher positions than their more qualified Nigerian counterparts. In 2009, some Nigerian staff of the then Zain GSM network operator, (now Airtel) raised alarm over the systematic replacement by MTC-Kuwait, the parent company, of Nigerians with Arabs who were allegedly less competent on the job. Among the affected senior Nigerian staff of the company were Norman Moyo (Director of Marketing), Tayo Bright (Head, Sales Group) and Ivie Imasogie Akinsete (Director, Strategy and Operations of the Human Resources Department). They were promptly replaced by Arabs. Indeed, reports had it that while the sacked Nigerian officials earned about N40 million annually, the newly employed Arab expatriates were placed on N80 million per annum, excluding other benefits. There is no gainsaying the fact that rising expatriate absorption in the companies has aggravated the unemployment crisis in the country. In April this year, the National Union of Civil Engineering, Construction, Furniture and Wood Workers (NUCECFWW) lamented that joblessness in the sector was being compounded by expatriate quota abuse. The union accused relevant government agencies responsible for checking the menace of possible negligence and compromise. In a communiqué at its 4th Quadrennial Delegates Conference held in Imo State, the body condemned the high rate of casualisation and contract staffing in the construction and furniture industry. The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), two years, ago likewise expressed concern over the influx of Asians in virtually all the sectors of the economy. The Director-General of LCCI, Mr. Muda Yusuf, said expatriates had taken over jobs where Nigerians had competencies and had gone to the extent of competing with Nigerian market women at the retail level. The story is the same everywhere – manufacturing, construction, telecoms and aviation sectors, et cetera. Sadly, the pathetic situation is said to be thriving with the connivance of well-placed, unscrupulous Nigerian officials in the foreign companies. This is despicable. For a country going through the throes of mass poverty and unemployment, nothing but strict, drastic and effective measures are required to stem the tide. Besides, it is nauseating that whereas Nigerians are hounded and cheated abroad, they are also helplessly undercut and short-changed at home. Some of the unspeakable affronts to the nation’s trade and other laws being tolerated by the Nigerian government from foreign companies are conditions even their home countries would penalize with heavy sanctions when detected. Not even the desperation for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by Nigerian government is good enough a justification for allowing the trend to persist. We therefore, commend the House of Representatives for its recent directive to its Committee on Employment, Labour and Productivity to investigate the allegation of non-compliance with expatriate quota regulations by foreign multinational companies operating in the country to truly determine their level of compliance. The regulatory agencies, including the National Assembly, should live up to their bounden responsibilities in the interest of the nation. The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) particularly should purge itself of compromised officers and begin to stalk these errant companies to identify and punish those smeared by expatriate quota abuse. |
Re: Abuse Of Expatriate Quota In Companies:how To Fight Without Unions? by dammylohlah: 12:09pm On Aug 11, 2015 |
This has to be checkmate imagine an india man to be name an auditor what is so special in auditing that Nigerian can not do. All this has to stop. Aforeigner has accountant, human resources etc PMB should pls help us look into it. |
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