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HR WITHOUT INITIATIVES 2

 Once I changed my job from a factory employing over 2,700  and spending a little over N300,000.00 monthly on medical bills to another factory employing a little over 200 staff but spent monthly over N250,000.00 on medical bills. 

For me,  this was a beautiful challenge that needed to be attended to. 


The result of preliminary research showed that: -

- We had 4 retainer hospitals. 

- Our staff fall sick majorly on Fridays and Saturdays evenings and mornings respectively. 

- Our staff took soft loans from the retainer hospitals,  which they send to us with interest as medical bills. 


What did I do? 

- Established an Industrial Clinic with an NYSC Doctor plus a Nurse. 

- Reduced retainer hospitals by two. 

- Got staff to choose which of the remaining two retainer hospitals to attend. 

- Stopped the payment of medical bills without referrals from the Industrial Clinic. 

- Sourced drugs from the pharmaceutical Division of the Conglomerate for the Industrial Clinic. 

- Gave a month's notice for full implementation of the arrangement. 

- Communicated the above new arrangement to the Group Head Office. 

- I got a letter of recommendation from GHO. 

- There was a great crash of the medical bills for the first month of implementation to below N50,000.00.


What was the reaction of the employees? 

- Staff with the active support of some benefiting managers went on a violent demonstration demanding the termination of my employment. 


What did Executive Management at GHO do? 

- Rejected the workers demand for my termination. 

- Sacked all the managers involved in the medical bills scam. 


Finally,  peace was restored and I got transferred to the GHO with bigger responsibilities, now to be in-charge of HR in six Divisions of the Conglomerate,  including the medical bills scamming Division. 


Next week,  we shall start sharing a new series entitled HR BY SENTIMENTS. 

Comments

  1. Patrick19 July 2023 at 14:04

    Good initiative

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  2. Franklyn Lemonwu16 June 2024 at 16:36

    Wow! Nice one, Sir.
    And, a bold one at that...coupled with the opposition/backlash you faced, which you must have seen coming before making your move.

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