PHCN: Negotiator recommends payment of workers’ gratuity

 

 

Victor AHIUMA-YOUNG

IF the Federal Government respects the recommendations of its Chief Negotiator in its face-off with the workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, over the settlement of entitlements in the on-going privatization of PHCN’s assets, the workers would have won a major battle, as the recommendations of the Government negotiator, Comrade Hassan Sumonu, asked the government to not only pay the workers their gratuity, but also in line with PHCN’s conditions of service.

In the long-awaited report of the negotiations between the Federal Government and the three unions in the power sector, the Chief Negotiator/Conciliator, dismissed argument that the Pension Reform Act, PRA of 2004, abolished gratuity in PHCN or any other sector, saying there was no reference to gratuity in the act.

 

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