Outsourcing Leads To 530 Job Losses At BPC

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Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) has parted ways with 530 of its staff on voluntary basis as part of the Corporation’s restructuring journey dubbed ‘Masa 2020’.

According to BPC’s CEO, Stefan Schwarzfischer the changes were driven by the state-owned power utility’s objective to outsource services to the private sector to increase efficiency particularly roles that were not core business such as cleaners, security guards and vehicle fleet maintenance.

“On staff rationalisation, the Corporation took a profound decision to invest in areas which were lacking through training of staff and capacity building. To date, the Corporation has got 140 more employees than at the beginning of the restructuring exercise,” he said.

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