Eluonye Koyegwuaehi
16 November 2013, Sweetcrude, Lagos - SHORTAGE of manpower has hit the nation’s power sector after an indiscrimate mass sack of workers of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) by the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, in the wake of the hasty hand-over of PHCN facilities to new owners.
16 November 2013, Sweetcrude, Lagos - SHORTAGE of manpower has hit the nation’s power sector after an indiscrimate mass sack of workers of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) by the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, in the wake of the hasty hand-over of PHCN facilities to new owners.
The BPE had after the new owners took over the facilities on November 1, sacked over 60 per cent of the workers including almost all the union leaders which has created tension and a looming industrial unrest in the fragile sector.
While government handed-over to new owners on November 1, the BPE had on Monday November 4, issued sack letters dated October 21, to the workers indscriminately without bothering whether they were paid their severance benefits or not.
Besides the BPE action said to have breached the agreement reached between government and oganised labour on the eve of the hand-over that none of the workers not paid their entitlements would be sacked, against all known standards and labour norms, the BPE allegedly to sack almost all the union leaders.
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