New Delhi : Bharti Airtel has asked over 800 Telenor employees to leave the company, a day after the government approved the merger between the telecom firms, according to source.
The company has offered five months’ salary as severance, even while some of the employees are not ready and some are demanding a year’s salary, the source said.
Confirming the news, Bharti Airtel said all people from Telenor India may not be absorbed. “It’s inevitable that in a post-integration scenario such as this, not all people from Telenor India will find meaningful roles within Airtel,” a spokesperson from Bharti Airtel said.
“We are ensuring that these people get appropriate support such as continued financial and medical allowances along with the assistance of our placement partners,” the spokesperson said.