A number of employees in the Sultanate’s communications sector are facing the specter of layoffs and cutting off their livelihoods. “Atheer “website revealed an issue of Omani youth that layoffs were looming on the horizon. A story of young people working in the telecommunications sector, some of whom started their business trip with “Ooredoo” projects with “Ericsson Oman” (The company that has been implementing the telecommunications network building projects for Ooredoo at that time) for more than 10 years.
The site stated that after stopping the procedures for obtaining construction permits for Ooredoo, the company notified the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the matter of transferring 16 Omani employees working with them for long years in the project to acquire sites and build stations for Ooredoo, and requested that they be transferred to the Oman Towers Company, as it is the one who will own the project and will undertake the construction process Communications towers for all operating companies in the Sultanate, according to Article (48) of the Labor Law, which states "the commitment of the business owner to whom the project has relegated, in whole or in part, to operating the national workforce with the same benefits and financial incentives."
The interventions did not yield any result despite the intervention of the General Directorate of Workers Care based on a complaint from Huawei that calls for the application of Article 48 bis of the Workforce Law, and all parties were included at the meeting table which is the Ministry of Manpower and the General Union of Workers and the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and the Oman Towers Company The Omani Qatari Telecommunications Company, Ooredoo, Huawei and the President of the Huawei Workers Union, with representatives of the employees.
The Ministry of Manpower decided to confirm the workers ’stay in Huawei and transfer of all employees to it. All the attendees at the meeting signed the record. Huawei representatives declined to sign because they did not agree and to confirm the project’s transfer again, but the ministry was determined to implement what was in the record and was End the meeting.
Since that day, young people are under pressure to cut salaries, and five workers were notified last week that their services would be terminated and they were discharged from the National United Telecommunications Company, although the issue was circulated in the corridors of the competent authorities for months, but it was unable to solve the problem.
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