Salah Break Tragedy: Unity Bank Fires 215 Workers
LAGOS SEPETEMBER 15TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Unity Bank Bank staff were shocked when no fewer than 215 of the workers received sacked letters just after resuming work after the salah break. Most of those sacked were branch managers and senior staff.
An aggrieved source said, “There were no signs that such action was contemplated before we proceeded on the Salah break. We came in this morning (yesterday) strategising on how to go about the remaining days of the working week, when the letters dropped on the email box of affected persons.”
Unity bank official who did not want his name on print however said the laying off of the workers is part of the bank’s reengineering strategy for greater performance.
According to him, the workers were sacked for their inability to cope with the new ideas and strategy of the institution.
The bank is said to have made significant strides in its repositioning drive with the attraction of specialist skills to its workforce since the relocation of its head office from Abuja to Lagos in sync with its plan to grow market share in viable clusters of the retail market.
Another source close to the bank said the new focus of the bank’s business has led to significant enhancement of human capital in its various business units. This is with a view to injecting fresh ideas, initiatives and energies to strengthen the various departments of the bank with capabilities to pursue the attainment of strategic business focus in the Agricultural financing, retail/SMEs and development of rural economy.
