Intels Nig Ltd is a company with its operational base in Rivers state, south-south Nigeria. The company provides logistics and technical support solutions to her clients who are active players in the upstream oil and gas sector of the industry in Nigeria.

In the wake of the corona virus pandemic and its attendant effect on not just governments of the world but also on businesses and almost every family unit, most employers of labour, Intels Nigeria Limited inclusive, are proving to be rather insensitive to the plight of their employees at this crucial moment with plans and policies that are anti-workers.

Some workers the world over have already lost their jobs and means of livelihood to the effect of the corona virus on businesses while other workers who are considered a little lucky have had to agree to downward salary reviews. All in a bid for businesses to navigate this times.

We have credible information that suggests that the management of Intels Nigeria Limited have already concluded plans to embark on compulsory retrenchment/redundancy of her work force both from the Junior and Senior Cadre. The reported number of workers expected to be affected by this planned action of the management of the company is about 900 workers from about 1300 workers on her payroll.

This planned action of the management of Intels Nigeria Limited if not aborted will further plunge affected members of staff into untold hardship and retrogression. Many families will find it extremely difficult, if not completely impossible to survive. This action would also affect the revenue generated to the government of Rivers state.

This unsavory development is coming at a time when we equally have it on credible information that the Management of Intels Nigeria Limited have already paid for and acquired two (2) sea ports - *Interporto Di Venezia Spa* and *Terminal Intermodale Adriatico* in Italy. The investment in these acquisition is estimated at approximately €19 million. This action appears to us as a deliberate action by the company to kill the Nigerian operation and birth the one in Italy.

We wish to call on the government of Rivers state, the Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity as well as the Nigerian Labour Congress to indulge on the management of Intels Nigeria Limited to desist from the adoption and implementation of any policy, plan or action which is capable of affecting workers negatively. We agree that these are difficult times but we donot share in the sentiment that embarking on mass retrenchment is the way forward.