Blog 03- Employee termination during CoVID19 pandemic in Sri Lanka
Employee termination during CoVID19 pandemic in Sri Lanka
Thae CoVID19 pandemic In Sri Lanka made many human resource
issues which were not experience on expected. Among them most crucial issue is
termination of employment.
The labor crisis created by the covid19 pandemic has
increased global unemployment by almost 25 million. The impact was several in
the cases of seasonal labor such as in domestic constructions.
Working from home is not possible unless the technical
supports are provided to the employees.
In Many works places the employments have been terminated by
temporary non-employment because of non-availability of work.
Covid 19 pandemic has contributed to the imaging of many new
forms of technologies driven employments in new normal conditions. Employees
who are unable to work in technology, terminated for the reason of their inefficiency
and incompetency.
Retaining of employment with deducted salary could minimized
the termination.
With the implementation of the lock down and social distance
measures, human resources were affected by losing work hours and jobs.
But some firms have overcome from this by allowing workers
to work from home. But 13% of total employed persons who belongs to different
occupational groups were unable to practice this due to difficulties I adapting
to new technologies.
Human resource management should apply a sustainable
approach to address this crisis by deploying and using the optimum numbers of
personal in relevant post and time to enable to business to reach its goal by
performing a strategic role motivation and job satisfaction of personal will
increase the ultimate result of this approaches are decreasing cost and
increasing profit
References
Amtrong, M., 2006. A Handbook of Human Resource
Management Practice. 10 ed. London and Philadelphia: KoganPage.
Anon., 2020. Labor
statistic, s.l.: Department of Labor.
Mangaleswaram, T.,
2020. Human resource management challenges during Covid 19-Pandemic. Covid
19- Labour Issues and Responses.
Sarweswaran, A., n.d.
Covid 19 Pandemic and Termination of Employment. Covid 19- Labour Issues
and Responses.
Employee termination process mostly increased during the pandemic situation and timely important topic to discuss
ReplyDeleteA timely article. The current status of our country is uncertain. The organizations have been affected in a wider scale. Hence, in order to manage the cost, the staff termination are on an increasing trend. You have given us few key points to focus when terminating the staff
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