Eluonye Konyegwuaehi
01 December 2013, Sweetcrude, Lagos - The TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to personally intervene in the plight of thousands of sacked workers of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, who have not been paid their terminal benefits.
Report has it that no fewer than seven thousand workers of the defunct PHCN have not been paid a kobo, while 30,000 of them were paid only part of their severance benefits.
It would be recalled that the Federal Government through the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) on November 1, handed over the assets of PHCN to new owners, while three days later over 30,000 of the workers were issued sack letters dated October 21, 2013.
Contrary to the agreement reached between Labour and Government on October 31, that no worker would be disengaged without full payment of his or her terminal benefit, at least, it has been uncovered that no fewer than 7000 were disengaged without receiving a kobo.
In the same vein, contrary to the extant labour law, few thousands that were re-engaged were employed on six months contract (casuals).
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