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HR MISTAKES BY YOURS TRULY 2

 The first HR Mistake by yours truly was seizing junior staff salaries.

I joined this company with a headcount of over 2,400 employees but less than 40% were registered with the Nigerian Provident Fund (NPF). All my appeals for the over 60% to come forward for registration fell on deaf ears.

When the registration of the unregistered staff became one of my annual performance goals, I had to go extra mile to achieve my goal to the extent that by the end of the year less than 5% of the junior staff had no NPF Numbers.

Secondly, In the same company, I publicly disgraced the branch executives of the Senior Staff Association. WHAT HAPPENED?

I got a memorandum from the SSA to management appealing for a N100 deduction from all senior staff salaries for a Christmas party. When I called the attention of the Vice Chairman of the Association to the fact that I was not a member of the Association consequent upon the the provision of the Trades Union's December 1986 amendment, he told yours truly that the deduction was compulsory and there was nothing I can do about it.

My reaction was to draw the attention of management to the proposed illegal deduction from my salary and management obliged my demand.

After the above action and reaction, the General Manager/CEO of the company nominated yours truly to represent him at the Christmas party and the SSA rejected the nomination outright.

A few days to the Christmas party the GM/CEO asked yours truly to stand in for him at the SSA national fund raising event and when I asked for a mandate, yours truly was told I could use by discretion. At the event proper, on behalf of the company and the GM/CEO, I announced a donation of N5,000. It took the intervention of the AGM(Admin) and the withdrawal of their objections to my representing the GM/CEO at the Christmas party to increase the company donation to N100,000.

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  1. Anonymous12 February 2025 at 15:48

    How was the issues of the illegal deduction managed? Was there any revolt from the members?

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