Published in The Express Tribune on January 26, 2011.
KARACHI: This is with reference to your news item of January 20 entitled “Belt-tightening: KESC sacks 4,000 staffers”. I’m afraid the power utility itself is responsible for its predicament. There were a number of things it could have tried. It could have offered a thousand workers initially to resign with a golden handshake of Rs 400,000 each. Then a few weeks later, it could have retrenched another thousand, offering a higher amount. Again, this could have been repeated a couple of months later. This could have, perhaps, prevented the massive protests that followed its decision to sack en masse thousands of workers.
Shakir Lakhani
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