Published: Wednesday, September 4, 2013 Some Robi employees protest termination Telecom operator defends change Abdullah Mamun Some disgruntled employees of Robi demonstrate in front of the telecom operator’s corporate office in Gulshan in Dhaka yesterday. Photo: Star A group of Robi employees yesterday staged a demonstration in front of the operator’s corporate office to protest the termination of seven of its officials. The fallout started over the transfer of employees of Robi’s infrastructure division to the operator’s recently-established subsidiary, Bangladesh Infrastructure Company Ltd (BICL). Some 71 of the employees refused to make the switch. In a statement, Robi said, “The employees who had not agreed to the change were informed that they could not be absorbed by Robi since the company no longer had an infrastructure division.” The employees went on to file an injunction with the court, which has since been vacated, according to the statement. To protest, they even applied for a trade union, named Robi Axiata Sromik Kormochari Union, with the Directorate of Labour. The individuals who were supposed to serve prominent roles in the proposed union were released from their employment contracts on “disciplinary grounds” on Sunday. Mahmudur Rahman, executive vice-president of Robi, said the termination has no relationship with the intent to form trade union as the company was oblivious of the development. “The company can transfer any of its employees to BICL as it is a fully-owned subsidiary of Robi,” he added. As things stand, 25 of the 70 protesting employees joined BICL yesterday, with 15 more due to make the switch.
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:05:47 +0000
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