Govt raises panel to implement payment of PHCN workers’ benefits

 

REPRIEVE may have come the way of electricity workers in the country, as their many years of struggle with government over their severance package and related benefits would be settled within three weeks, going by indications that emerged from Abuja, last week.

The new deal is expected to be sorted out within the next three weeks during which the panel would work with the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and the Auditor General of the Federation to ensure that all due payments are made within the fastest time possible.

The committee followed the agreement signed on December 11, 2012 between labour and government. That agreement outlined, in broad term, the benefits and entitlements to be paid to employees. The workers are expected to be disengaged, as part of the electricity privatisation process while new plant owners are at liberty to reemploy those they desire.

The panel, which has membership from the various labour unions in the sector, already has the support of the workers who pledged not to ‘” fight again” 

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