Layoff exercise not politically motivated -Coleman

The Accra Zonal Supervisor of the Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Mr Robert Coleman has explained that ongoing exercise to layoff some of the personnel of the company across the country, particularly in Accra, was not politically motivated.
He told the Daily Graphic in an interview on Tuesday that "Management took the decision to layoff some of its workers due to laziness, indiscipline and habitual absenteeism, while some of them treated the job with contempt,".
He said the exercise which began in February, was as a result of recommendations made by the human resource department of the organisation to management and indicated that the vim and vigour with which some of the workers started the work had died out and so most of them were not performing.
He stated that 251 workers in Accra have been laidoff and the exercise would continue in the other regions.
He said "it is an in-house cleaning that we are doing to serve as a lesson to other lazy workers”, and added that "we need people who are more dedicated and committed to their job”.
Mr Coleman said Zoomlion would take disciplinary actions against workers who do not perform at their various work places and stressed that "we hope to deepen our services under this government".