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funkybaby: Another interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing.

Do you mind stating how much they pay outsourced staff with about one year experience?

Outsourced Staff with one year experience will basically be hired like a fresh graduate and will earn between #80 - #120K with no likelihood for review of salary until Jesus comes.

Reference: I just don't get it. You work 48 hours a week. That is paltry. No wonder the networks are so bad. And I spend my weekends working and most public (government) holidays. Pally stop complaining. If you want to work less join the civil service but if you want more work start your own business and be the boss you dislike so much, even 24 hours a day, seven days a week won't be enough. This is a depressed economy, we don't make anything in this country. Why won't wages be low and hours long.

It is obvious from your comments above that you really don't know what is obtainable in the Telecomms industry. Please kindly do a Background check into issues before making comments.

Working 48hrs/week in Telecomms means you run a 24/7 shift, and you work all year round (you work day/night, no public hols, no breaks, strikes don't affect you, no festive holidays)

What the Staff are basically asking for is for Huawei Technologies ( a Global Brand) to adopt a Worldwide acceptable Best Practices in the treatment of their Staff.

all4naija: The write is a little bit out of place. The writer didn't convince me enough on why I should take the right action to make sure the conditions allegedly said to be bad for the work are addressed with immediate effect. There is no reason whatsoever to proved that the write is about Huawe. Nobody has come forward to support this claim as binding. It is a poor write-up, if you ask. Going by the failure of the writer to tell us why we have to stand by the staff of that tech company. There is no evidence or whatsoever that the staff are passing through those conditions. At least, we need to hear from more than workers in the said company before concluding on the action to take.

However, Nigerians on one hand don't know how to fight for their rights. On the other hand taking actions which will better their lives and those of the society have been seen to be too dangerous that most people will just snob over important actions as those. I have never see any civilized action taken in Nigeria to make the life of ordinary Nigerians better. For the worst of it most people are too afriad o fight for justice for the simple reason they are afraid of police brutality. It is time Nigerians take a cue from Thai and Arabs. Taking actions on the right ground is the best thing that can happen to any nation citizens because it helps to rectify inhuman treatment and other ills within different sectors of the country.

My contribution is to what actions need to be taken if the Huawei refuses to make changes. Boycott their products. This is don't through dissemination of information regarding their products distributed in public places in the forms of hand bills, in universities and colleges around the nation and through the social media, as we have seen here, although, it is not enough. If possible observe strike action and take the neccessary step to stop booleggers from taking over jobs when stricking action is on.

Protest at the ministry of works and human resources will go a long way to have a greater insight into the condition. Thereby helping those in the bereaucracy to have thorough amendment to make to other companies within the nation .

Please, the OP should help us to have better idea of the situation and call on his colleagues at working place to do something to disseminate this information regarding those abuses by Huawei.


Thank you.

You need to put a whole lot of things into perspective to really understand why the Staff of Huawei Technologies will be that bitter. Presently Huawei Technologies is the Biggest Telecommunication Vendor in the World. At the moment Huawei Technologies Controls over 55% of the Nigerian Telecommunications Equipment market and still growing at an alarming rate. In fact with the rate it is going, the market is tending towards a monopoly, as they are muscling out other vendors like Alcatel Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia System Networks, Motorola etc.

The staff pay package, welfare, working conditions and Training is far better at all the above mentioned Vendors and Huawei's doesn't even come close to it.
The practice the world over is for NOC staff to be entitled to Shift allowance ( cos they work 24/7) and also entitled to Overtime ( cos they work more than the regular 40hrs/week). None of these is applicable to the NOC Staff of Huawei both on Etisalat and Airtel Project.

I agree with you that the writer didn't do such a good job with the write up, but the claims the Writer made in that write up are nothing but the Gospel truth about happenings in the Company.


I know these things because I worked at Huawei Technologies for a couple of years and I still have a lot of Friends there.

Hello House,

I just got this mail that has been circulating within quarters at Huawei Technologies.
Kindly read through and express your view.

Thanks

Subject: ILL TREATMENT OF HUAWEI OUTSOURCED STAFF

Dear Sirs,
This is to bring to your notice the terrible attitude of Huawei
Technologies Company management in Nigeria towards their staff, especially
on the Airtel Managed Service.
There is a limit to which every human being can be pushed before he
pushes back. We have been pushed to that point and now we will push back
hard, so hard that it will result to a diplomatic issue.
We will list some of our reasons for vexing and hope the well meaning
people, that are still uncontaminated within the management level will take
this up.
Why should Huawei give an FME forty sites to maintain? This sites include
Airtel, Etisalat, MTN and Visafone. How do they expect the FME to be
efficient? We are also certain that the Customers are not aware about this.
This engineers work round the clock, without any form of incentive, risking
their lives even at night for a company that shows no sympathy. Many have
died on duty without any form of compensation. Today we say enough is
enough!
Early this year, the FMEs were FORCED to buy smart phones from Huawei
Technologies (a company we supposedly work for) through the (Huawei owned)
outsourced companies namely Rutotech, Lighting Networks and Qualiserve.
The cost of these phones were deducted from our salaries. Which kind of
company does that?
The worst of the victims are the Airtel NOC staff. The working conditions
are so poor that a seven months old baby was forced out of her mother's
womb prematurely (Her name is Fortune Longjohn). We work for forty eight
hours (48hrs) a week which is against Nigerian Labor Law, yet we do not get
any shift allowance. Like Mr Sunil Gupta (an indian) has boasted in the
past that the Nigerian Labour is on Huawei's payroll. Soon, we will find
out how true it is.
Some of the staff have worked for almost 3years and earn less than those
who have worked for just few months. The salary you earn in the NOC is
based on the "connection" you have. Imagine someone earns N100,000, while
another earns N300,000 doing the same job - Injustice!
One of the worst management "racist" decision is replacing Mr. Francis
Agbodike (a seasoned profession with vast international experience) with
the likes of R.S Tomar and Anicho Ogbonnaya. These two men, Tomar and
Anicho are far from being professionals, they take on personal vendetta on
staff, they know little or nothing about the job. It was only Agbodike that
brought Airtel Network outage to a single digit count. But because he is
outspoken against the injustice in the NOC, he was booted out.
Mr Tomar has once said that even if we do not want to work, there is a long
queue of people willing to take our jobs for a smaller salary. This
statement is highly demoralizing for people who give their lives to the
network. We work on a 48hr shift per week, public holidays and weekends
still yet we are not appreciated.

We are therefore calling on Airtel Nigeria Management to look into the
matter. We are not happy and will not want to seek the option of sabotaging
the network. We can and will choose that course of protest if this ill
treatment continues.

Also We are calling on the Huwei Management in China, The CEO Guo Ping, The
Founder Ren Zhengfei and Chairwoman - board of directors Sun Yafang. Please
call to order your staff in Nigeria.

We are also calling to the Chinese High Commission in Nigeria to use your
good office to bring sanity into this injustice.

We are also calling on the Nigeria Labour Congress, you have been accused
of gross corruption, this is the time to salvage yourself and rescue your
people from modern slavery in Huawei Technologies.

Finally We call on Mr Tony Ojobo, Director Public Affairs of the NCC and
Dr. Eugene Juwah the Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC. Huawei
Technologies should be investigated and then properly regulated.

We do not believe in violence, but if this issues are not addressed soon,
we might have to bring down the network. AND THIS IS NOT AN EMPTY THREAT.
Thank You.

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