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.
Good initiative
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