As the deadline for the voluntary disengagement of staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) expired last Friday, the management of the oil company is set to lay off about 2,500 of its workforce, who refused to cash in on the window of voluntary retirement at the end of last month.
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Nigeria: 2,500 Shell Workers Face Sack As 1,000 Retire
Nigeria: Niger Delta Leaders Dismiss Planned Summit
They said Mr. Basil Omiyi was their Managing Director, everybody was happy that a Nigerian has now been appointed a Managing Director, where is Omiyi today? They call him Country Chairman in Abuja. He is the public relations man. When a white man comes from Shell, if they want to take them round to ministries and so on, he is the one to do that. What type of treatment is that?
Nigeria: Shell – Pengassan Threatens Mass Action
Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) yesterday warned that, it would mobilise the 15,000 workforce in the oil and gas industry for a prolonged mass action against Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) if it should go ahead with its plan to sack 2000 of its 7000 workers.
Shell axes 400 more Euro jobs
Just two weeks ago, Shell said 350 UK North Sea staff and contractor jobs would be lost, but a further 260 posts have been added to that. Around 200 of them will be onshore jobs at Lowestoft in East Anglia. Another 100 jobs will go in Aberdeen and London.