Shell, Chevron Allegedly Set To Sack 8,000 Staff
Palpable fear has
gripped the Nigerian staff of Chevron and Shell as the two
multinationals begin compilation of 8,000 names for sack. New Telegraph
had exclusively reported plans by Chevron and Shell to sack 8, 000 staff
in addition to the 8, 000 employees they announced earlier this year as
the accounts of the oil firms slips into red.
Further checks by this
newspaper at the weekend revealed that managements of the two oil
companies have begun to compile names of those who will be affected in
Nigeria. This action, sources at the two oil firms told this newspaper,
was occasioned by earlier correspondences sent to managements of the
companies’ subsidiaries in Nigeria.
“That
is what everybody is talking about here,” a Shell staff said after his
anonymity was guaranteed. “The situation is even worse for some of us
who are nontechnical staff,” his Chevron’s counterpart added. He
continued: “Up till now we do not know how many staff in Nigeria will be
affected but we are aware that the list being compiled has a mandate to
include about 95 per cent of staff from finance: audit and accounting;
human resources, government, public relations and communications among
others. “The remaining five per cent will make up technical staff, who
are due for retirement and those with incriminating memos in their
files,” he said.
The New
York Times had reported penultimate Sunday that Chevron would axe 7,000
staff in addition to the 1,500 it announced early this year while
Shell, according to Reuters, also plans to sack 1000 more staff
different from the 6,500 it announced for sack in the first quarter.
Although
the two multi-nationals did not give a break-down of how many staff in
their Nigerian operations will be affected, Chevron said on its website
that Nigeria “is an important part of Chevron’s business globally” while
Shell, which is also the biggest oil firm in Nigeria in terms of assets
and production, “produces substantial volume of its global output from
Nigeria.”
Like
Chevron and Shell, other international oil companies (IOCs) at the
weekend posted unprecedented losses in the third quarter, which is the
worst since the downturn started. The trio of Chevron, Shell and Eni,
with heavy assets and production in Nigeria, posted $12 billion losses
in three months as their outlooks dimmed.
-New Telegraph
Do we have any Shell or Chev workers here that can confirm if this is true?
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