Bahamas Electricity Corporation

The Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) is a organization owned corporation. The corporation supplies electrical energy in the Bahamas except for the Grand Bahama and Inagua where their put out of electricity is outsourced. (www. fortune. com, 2005). The current minister in charge of its operation is the curate of Public Works and Utilities, Phenton Newmour. Its current general manger is Kevin Basden. The Corporation was founded in the year 1956 through the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and Electricity Act. In the year 1994, in that respect have been several issues in the Bahamas Electricity Corporation regarding the corruption of the employees.There ar also issues regarding the seement of the agreements that the corporation had promised to its marrow members. The following problems would be discussed in the next few paragraphs II. Corruption inside BEC In the year 2004, it had been emphasise in an term written by Candia Dames that Corruption had struck in the BEC. Loss of active $100 one million million million over the last louver years had been estimated. According to Dames (2004),these losses was due to the business persons and BEC employees conspiracy that involves the en think of meter tampering. In the year 2003, the new figures reveal that the pairing had at sea a total of $ 18.54 Million in non-technical losses. New Providence accounted for 79. 82% or $ 14. 79 Million in losses and 20. 19% or 3. 75 Million Dollars. Possible consequences that could happen be compositors case of these assumed conspiracy is that the constitution of the participation could be torn to shreds and as such, the peoples trust would definitely decrease. It had been elevate explained that the fraternity had used several countermeasures to avoid further losses. According to Ms. Dames, the attach to would be putting a new electricity consumption meters which is ask automatically.The meters would be put into place and a preventative had also been added as a f eature of the meters which can be read automatically. A nonher reason why this particular device had been chosen is because the company would want to avoid the BEC workers to under read the meter which had been a cause of the losses that the company had incurred. III. Union Destabilization According to the article, the BEC needed to fulfill its side of the contract in Bahamas Electrical Workers Union. At the end of 2003, the union members in BEC had made several demands to the company.Among the issues that they wanted to be resolved are wage increases and improved premium funds. Current contribution that the company makes descend to 13%of each workers salary to the pension fund. However, an actuarial report had been shown about the pension fund. It shows that the company is not putting enough money for the pension funds of the employees. Based on the report, the underfunded amount is around $22 million. The dissolver that the company had thought of is to makeup for the shortfall s of the company by increasing contributions to 16. 6%.Computing the total annual increase, the 16. 6% shows an annual increase of $4. 5 million to $5. 7 million. Even though the company had already established this, the union had still demanded for an increase of 26. 2% which means that the annual contribution essential be $7. 6 million. The company had declared that they are not satisfactory of paying a very large amount of 26. 2%. The article reveals that a merit dodge for the workers is being pushed to an agreement. The merit system kit and caboodle to reward the employees beginning in the third year of the contract.The salary increases in the midst of 3 to 8% based on the job performance. IV. Conclusion V. Points to consider To analyze the case it is important to have points to think about in order to have a deep analysis of the case. First unbelief about the case is about the base that the company had thought of in order to reduce losses. Is the solution of changing me ters a good solution? . Another question that could be addressed is that Since the problem in the company had rooted from unethical practice, shouldnt the solution involve ethical train of the employees? .Third question for the case is that Was the company transparent about the fact that they were not able to pay for the pension fund? . The transparency of the company essential be shown in this case because if this is established, it can be concluded that the company is open to its financial situation. Being open about the status of the company is being honest to the employees. Lastly, there had been several comments on the reward system that must be established. The question for case analysis is Shouldnt there be an military rating system for the employees in a frequent base such as quarterly, monthly? Most companies use the performance evaluation as a means to increase the salary of the employee and at the uniform time to determine whether the employee deserves to be promoted or trained to improve his or her performances. REFERENCES Dames, C. 2004. Corruption Rocks BEC. Retrieved last demo 20, 2008 from Geocities. Website http//www. geocities. com/bzephyr2002/BECC. html Fortune. 2005. Bahamas Electric Corporation. Retrieved last March 19, 2008 from Fortune. Website http//www. timeinc. net/fortune/services/sections/fortune/intl/media/2005_11caribbean. pdf