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HR MISTAKES BY YOURS TRULY 5

 Companies whose employees steal is caused by these companies by pursuing anti-people policies. Today I share with you my experiences in three companies I worked and be the judge whether employees stealing is companies engineered or not.

Firstly, There was the company I worked where drivers used 90 liters of fuel to cover about 400 kilometers, while your truly covered a distance of 450 kilometers with less than 45 liters with a car of the same engine capacity. When I introduced people centric policies, yours truly position was declared redundant with the claim that those policies were more expensive to the company than the stealing that was taking place.

Secondly, In another company, the management made contributory pension deductions from staff salaries but failed to remit same to any Pension Fund Administrator. A Finance staff stole N27 million from the company which he gave to religious organization and this faith based organization insisted that children of God's gift to God cannot be refunded. When I insisted that the over three years deductions be remitted to a PFA, the employment of your truly was terminated.

Thirdly, In this particular company, yours truly was frustrated from implementing people friendly policies to the extent that I had to resign. Some of these policies were:-

- Introduction of HMO for staff medical services.

- Introduction of contributory pension scheme.

- My stand against the conversion of regular staff to contract.

After I left, within eighteen months the company lost N75 million in one location.

Please, go back and check out the Content I shared on Employees Stealing between December, 2020 and January, 2021 on this blog.

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