Huawei's Workers Cries Out Over Poor Working Condition As Fuel Subsidy Removal Bits Hard

Huawei, being one of the major employer of labour in telecom sectors, appears to have created an unhealthy condition between staff and outsource which seems to have seriously affected workers welfare of late. Despite the fact that the company is operating on outsource ratio and expatriate to local employee ratio, the level of degradation in remuneration standard has gotten worse.

Workers have been clamouring for upward adjustment of salary structure since the start of Covid-l9 and the effect on the economy but their demands to yield no result. It's a herculean task to increase salaries of long term employees but Huawei brings in graduate trainees that earn btw 400-450k monthly and this same old employees (with some earning below 200k for more than 8 yrs) will have to train them.

Also the management are yet to look into the critical impact of the fuel subsidy removal and how it will affect the workers. Recall that since May 29 when the fuel subsidy removal was announced by President Bola Tinubu, the bulk of HUAWEI employees that are outsourced have engaged Huawei management on the review of their remuneration in line with the current economic reality but it has yielded no positive results.

Hybrid work hours has also been vehemently rejected by Huawei management without any empathy on what cost of transportation has caused.

Employees have been clamoring for salary increment even before the subsidy removal but it was unfortunate that only 30k was eventually added to the salary of some staffs after deduction from outsource vendors according to an employee of 8yrs with RGS global company.

A lot of staffs have been resigning when any opportunity pops up but the rest are stuck with Huawei considering the fact that the organization have a monopoly of handling Services for all network operators in Nigeria. So if you are a transmission operations Engineer you must work with Huawei.

This has led to Huawei enslaving staffs and paying salaries that can't sustain them based on the reality on ground in Nigeria. This is an act of wickedness and it is at this junction that the Federal Government must intervene in order to prevent Huawei from maltreating their staff.


Interestingly, most of the staff are contract staff and are paid peanuts with reduced leave of 10 working days for outsourced staff compared to their counterpart, who are full time staff, that enjoy 15 working days leave.

Bizarrely enough, employees are not allowed to have a union. It's a shame that the Chinese owned Huawei are treating our highly skilled labour force like slaves all because of the monopoly they have on telecommunications Managed Services in Nigeria.

Huawei are yet to inform their employees that a token of 30k monthly payment will be added as palliative to cushion the hardship being felt by the removal of fuel subsidy.

This is complete lack of human feelings from the part of Huawei as cost of living have become unbearable in addition with the high cost of transportation that seem to have taken a lot from many of the staff.

Sad enough, Huawei have refused to review the take home of long term employees that are the pillar of their operations but prefer to bring in new employees and pay them well.


More so, people running four-day shift have resulted to sleeping in the office in a bid to save cost of
transportation and go home only when they go off-duty at the end of their shift. Most of the workers are finding it difficult to meet up with their daily obligations.


Finally, we are appealing to the government to break this monopoly and ensure standard labour practices are being followed in Huawei.

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Well captured