Retrenchment is right, but the process is not...

Many people comment that the company retrenchment was wrong, it was so inhuman. So, was company retrenchment wrong? Was it the whole management wrong?

Let's ask some questions:
Is it wrong that a child starts talking?
Is it wrong that a youth start dating?
Is it wrong a young adult says he/she wants to get married?

That's absolutely nothing wrong with that! That parts of growth! All people need to go through that stage! That's what most people will say. Same with a company when it growth. It needs go through high and low, different stages of change, and multiple decisions. When it on mountain top, we can enjoy all the benefits from its labor. When it facing problems, all the benefits will be gone, cost cut, and finally human capital need to reduce. Wrong? I don't think so. It's part of the company growth. Those who study Business Management knew that.

Therefore retrenchment is not wrong, but the process will go wrong. Back to those questions, it is wrong when the child talks vulgar words, it is wrong when the youth dating with same sex, and it is wrong when the couple getting married when they haven't prepare.

The issue is not so much on why you do but how you do it. The staffs in my company angry at management not because they will losing their job. They angry because they don't threat as what they deserved. They angry when they know that company not following the labor law. When a company decided to retrench or ask employees to resign, they need to send the proposal to the labor office to endorse. The proposal must stated reason(s), how many people involve, and how the compensate. Then they need to know whether it is retrenchment or Voluntary Separation Scheme. After they endorse, HR must send out a memo one week before the action is taken. So I don't see all these happen. (I knew all this thanks to my cousin who is a labor lawyer).

Now those who involved (not voluntary), frustrated because the company not being transparent, and the company don't even mention whether that is retrenchment or Voluntary Separation Scheme. So the superior-subordinate relationship is challenged and peoples are not move to work because the thrust is not there anymore.

So I do hope the management can solve this issue fast enough, as the negative emotion will spread like disease. If they solve it well, the management can regain the thrust from the remaining employees, and easier for them to move on. If not, let's pray that this company will not sent to execute in the name of law.

In God we thrust, God bless the company.