ZESCO Limited has clarified that the exercise of conducting an internal human resource audit is procedural and is in line with best practice in human resource management.
The Company Public Relations Manager Hazel Zulu said the exercise is a standard practice in human resource management and one of the activities that the company carries out periodically.
Speaking in an interview with the Zambian Business Times – ZBT, Zulu said the corporation conducts internal audits of its assets and human resource to provide autonomous assurance that the company’s risk management, governance and internal control processes are operating effectively.
She noted that the company was not aware of who shared the internal memorandum to the public, which is currently circulating on social media. Most companies have internal memo’s and these are part of the internal communication process.
According to a ZESCO memorandum which has gone viral on social media and seen by the ZBT dated 27 August 2021, The Power utility company stated that there was an urgent need to carry out a physical employee verification exercise in all the stations countrywide.
The exercise will be carried out in an effort to ensure that the integrity of the company’s employee data in PHRIS and the data bases in respective divisions/directorate for all employees tally and align.
The Memo further stated that all employees will be followed in their respective stations to verify their physical presence/absence in the stated department according to the company’s records.
The employees should sign against their names to signify the confirmation, no employee will be allowed to sign for a colleague and some of the information required includes the Man No, Name, Station, Department and Signature of the employee. A consolidated confirmation report must be submitted by 13 September 2021 or earlier.
ZESCO recently commissioned the Kafue Gorge Lower Hydro power plant that has since ended load management in Zambia. The company has announced that it plans to become a net electricity exporter in the coming years.
