Good day to everyone reading this post. I work as a contract staff in one of the oil companies in port Harcourt. Many of us have spent more than 10 years on the job. Because it's a contract job, the contract expired last year and the job was opened for different contractors to bid for the contract. After everything, the former contractor that employed us lost the contract and a new contractor took over the job and was told by the oil company to retain all the workers. The new contractor asked us to go for medical checkup. The results of the text showed that 3 of my colleagues have health challenges. Two has high blood pressure while one has high sugar level. Because of these health challenges, they were declared unfit to work and they were sacked with immediate effect. I'm just thinking if this is was sacking someone for? Is this not stigmatization? So can someone be sacked just like that for disease that's not communicable?

Hypertension and diabetes are chronic illnesses that can be managed.

They are not debilitating if controlled to warrant a sack from a job you are already engaged in.

Just maybe the new company does not want loss of man hours due to such employees going for medical follow-ups and the attendant cost of medications and investigations.

The managers of the new company may even also be sufferers of one the the illnesses you mentioned.

Every aboki with him kettle.

They just compounded their problems, if they've been managing themselves doing the job then sacking them will cause more harm, not good.

What i reason is the new contractor.. Wants an excuse to do away with old workers.. And move forward with his \her new intended workers.
And if you look at it another way, everyone got his or her own policy. YOU CAN'T BLAME THE NEW CONTRATCTOR.