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Junior Staff Shut Oceanic Bank Corporate Office
- By Business World
- Published March 15th, 2010
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ACTIVITIES at the Lagos Corporate office of Oceanic Bank were last week paralysed for two days, as drivers shut down operations to protest management attempt at handing them over to an out sourced agency against agreements earlier reached between the two parties.
The bank contrary to its former stance of branding the picketing as illegal later resolved the impasse on the second day agreeing to pay off drivers who are ready to disengage from its services.
As early as 8a.m last week Monday, the drivers mobilised and switched off power supply to the offices located on Ozumba Mbadiwe and started chanting solidarity songs.
They insisted that the bank’s management should pay severance or disengagement entitlements to junior workers who had put in between 3 and 21 years in its service.
The bank’s management later drafted a squad of policemen to keep the protesting drivers from becoming violent and destroying property within the premises.
The drivers chanted songs denouncing John Aboh led management as been selfish and uncaring to the plight of junior workers.
According to a petition from the workers and addressed to the President, Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC), they demanded that severance benefits be paid to all junior workers without pre-conditions attached, while management proposal of the new outsourcing vendors should be optional.
Specifically, the drivers had earlier on reached an agreement with Oceanic Bank management that drivers who have spent reasonable number of years in the service of the bank are to be retired with full benefits. This means that drivers who had spent between 10 and more years in the institution will retire and go with their full benefits.
However, this was not to be as the bank reneged on the earlier agreement and decided to bring in three out sourcing companies to handle its fleet and drivers. The idea meant that the drivers will have to re-apply to the three selected companies for employment.
The bank contrary to its former stance of branding the picketing as illegal later resolved the impasse on the second day agreeing to pay off drivers who are ready to disengage from its services.
As early as 8a.m last week Monday, the drivers mobilised and switched off power supply to the offices located on Ozumba Mbadiwe and started chanting solidarity songs.
They insisted that the bank’s management should pay severance or disengagement entitlements to junior workers who had put in between 3 and 21 years in its service.
The bank’s management later drafted a squad of policemen to keep the protesting drivers from becoming violent and destroying property within the premises.
The drivers chanted songs denouncing John Aboh led management as been selfish and uncaring to the plight of junior workers.
According to a petition from the workers and addressed to the President, Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC), they demanded that severance benefits be paid to all junior workers without pre-conditions attached, while management proposal of the new outsourcing vendors should be optional.
Specifically, the drivers had earlier on reached an agreement with Oceanic Bank management that drivers who have spent reasonable number of years in the service of the bank are to be retired with full benefits. This means that drivers who had spent between 10 and more years in the institution will retire and go with their full benefits.
However, this was not to be as the bank reneged on the earlier agreement and decided to bring in three out sourcing companies to handle its fleet and drivers. The idea meant that the drivers will have to re-apply to the three selected companies for employment.
