New layoffs at the Port of Dakar. Around a hundred workers were dismissed at the end of 2024, reports Les Echos, which confides that “most of these agents [licenciés]were hoping for a permanent contract, after several years of service.
Contacted by the news daily, Abdou Karim Diarra, member of the Pad’s communications unit, rejects “the term dismissal”. He wanted to clarify “that these are workers whose contracts have expired”.
“If you remember, there was a first wave of departures right after his arrival. He [le Dg] cannot let a first wave go and keep those in this situation for the same reasons,” he insisted, we read in Rewmi.
Better, Diarra informs, “recruitments took place between the two waves of departures”, including 169 new agents recruited last November. “It was within the framework of the agreement between the former General Management (Mountaga Sy) and the Port unions. […].
At the moment when the [nouveau] Dg has launched the physical audit of the staff, he cannot approve the extension of these contracts. Once the audit is complete, [Bodian] will find solutions to this situation,” he adds.
