Former employees of Helpline Telecoms, a telecommunication retailing service in Ibadan, have accused the company of withholding their due salaries, arrears and other entitlements.
In separate engagements with www.aso.rocks, Abiola Victoria Ikuseedun and Oladetoun Gabriel, both ex-employees of the company, explained that the withheld salaries and other emoluments they were entitled to were due for payment before they resigned from the company.
Ikuseedun, who worked as a marketer for Africa mama ATM Ltd., a subsidiary of Helpline Telecoms, said before she resigned from the company on December 21, 2022, she was being owed N175,887 by the company.
The company withheld her salary not long after she turned in her resignation letter. According to her, they alleged that a fraud was committed in her name, the details of which were strange to her, she said.
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“I didn’t sign any undertaking. At a time, the company came up with a plan that we should engage a canvasser that would be registering people for daily contribution. This new role was never part of my appointment letter,” she said.
“We were only told to stay with the new canvasser and train them and allow them to work on their own. The mandate given to me was to recruit a canvasser. A letter of guarantor was issued to the canvasser. So any claim of fraudulent act in the canvasser’s operation should be levelled against the guarantor and not on me.”
Similar to Ikuseedun’s account, Gabriel said the company responded to his resignation letter with an allegation of fraud. According to him, Helpline made the allegation a week after he made his intention to leave the company known to them.
“They do not want to pay me because I resigned from their company. My salary, commission and lieu payments have been held since February,” Gabriel said.
“The allegation came to me as a rude shock by getting this as a result of my exceptional service to agents of the organisation, and having worked tirelessly for the company.”
Some documents of employment agreements with the trio.
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Gabriel, who is presently enrolled in a Business Analytics course in Lagos State, stated that Helpline Telecoms owed him N203,663, and that he needed the money to pay his tuition.
“I am not a fraudster nor would I under any pretence defraud the company or receive any gratification consciously or otherwise,” he said.
“I really need the money to aid my course fees and to cater for other needs. It is my sweat; I worked for it,” he told www.aso.rocks.
FIRED FOR HELPLINE TELECOM’S FAILINGS
Olaniyi Alli, the third of the indebted pack, was the company’s account officer. Alli accused Helpline of ripping off the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Pension Board, and unlawfully disengaging him.
His ordeal with the company hinged on extortion, cheating and cruelty toward the staff.
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For the period his appointment with the company lasted, Alli said Helpline unfairly deducted from his salaries and other entitlements due to shortfalls in sales and penalty fines for offences that the company was solely responsible for.
“There was a time when all our systems were down due to company error. Despite being company’s issues, the company continued to debit us,” Alli told www.aso.rocks. “All these conditions were never in my appointment letter.”
He added that the company withheld his in-lieu payment to the tune of N100,000. This, according to him, was in addition to other wrongs he believed the company committed even against the government.
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“The company short-paid me in my monthly salary, it short-paid the pension board, and it short-paid the FIRS,” he said.
On Thursday June 21, www.aso.rocks phoned Opoola Olayinwola, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, and Oyelakin Adeola, the head, human resources unit for the company’s reaction.
The company responded, saying that www.aso.rocks’s request be made under a letterhead, and that their legal department would respond to www.aso.rocks afterwards.
www.aso.rocks obliged and sent a letterhead of inquiry. On Saturday, www.aso.rocks called Olayinwola for a response to said inquiry, and he said the company’s legal team had long replied www.aso.rocks, but we had received no response from the company at press time.
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