BSS, Dhaka :
Displeasure is going on among the employees of country’s leading cellular phone operator Grameenphone over job cut, which the trade union has termed “illegal”.
Grameenphone Employees Union (GPEU) claimed the operator on April 23 terminated 28 employees illegally and inhumanly violating the labour law that made them frustrated.
The GPEU said no member of the union would be terminated as per the clause 186 of Bangladesh Labour Law when the registration of a trade union is pending.
However, the operator in a statement said: “Grameenphone is respectful of employee rights and strictly complies with the relevant laws of the land.”
The GPEU, formed in June 2012, said they had filed application to the Directorate of Labour for registration, but the application was rejected. Later, their appeal was also rejected by the Labour Court. So, they filed appeal at the Labour Appellate Tribunal on 19 April and the tribunal passed stay order on the Judgment of Labour Court on April 20. But, the GP management fired 28 employees unlawfully on 23 April which is also violation of the court order, said the GPEU.
Earlier in 2012, the GPEU said, the Grameenphone had terminated over 200 employees in the name of cost cutting, which sparked dissatisfaction among the employees. Considering the aspects, the GP management had stopped the job cut.
Taking to BSS, Mia M Shafiqur Rahman Masud, General Secretary of GPEU, said: “We’ve a simple demand and that is to reinstate the terminated employees.”
“The Grameenphone management has breached the law, so they should reinstate the employees, and if they (employees) have any inefficiency, the company has the responsibility to train up them,” he added.
But, they (GP) cannot terminate anyone forcefully violating the law, said Masud.
The GPEU informed most of the sister concerns of Telenor, the parent company of Grameenphone, operating in different countries have strong trade union except in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and one or two other countries.
Displeasure is going on among the employees of country’s leading cellular phone operator Grameenphone over job cut, which the trade union has termed “illegal”.
Grameenphone Employees Union (GPEU) claimed the operator on April 23 terminated 28 employees illegally and inhumanly violating the labour law that made them frustrated.
The GPEU said no member of the union would be terminated as per the clause 186 of Bangladesh Labour Law when the registration of a trade union is pending.
However, the operator in a statement said: “Grameenphone is respectful of employee rights and strictly complies with the relevant laws of the land.”
The GPEU, formed in June 2012, said they had filed application to the Directorate of Labour for registration, but the application was rejected. Later, their appeal was also rejected by the Labour Court. So, they filed appeal at the Labour Appellate Tribunal on 19 April and the tribunal passed stay order on the Judgment of Labour Court on April 20. But, the GP management fired 28 employees unlawfully on 23 April which is also violation of the court order, said the GPEU.
Earlier in 2012, the GPEU said, the Grameenphone had terminated over 200 employees in the name of cost cutting, which sparked dissatisfaction among the employees. Considering the aspects, the GP management had stopped the job cut.
Taking to BSS, Mia M Shafiqur Rahman Masud, General Secretary of GPEU, said: “We’ve a simple demand and that is to reinstate the terminated employees.”
“The Grameenphone management has breached the law, so they should reinstate the employees, and if they (employees) have any inefficiency, the company has the responsibility to train up them,” he added.
But, they (GP) cannot terminate anyone forcefully violating the law, said Masud.
The GPEU informed most of the sister concerns of Telenor, the parent company of Grameenphone, operating in different countries have strong trade union except in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and one or two other countries.
