Many casual workers at the Federal Medical Center in Owo,
Ondo state, disrupted activities at the hospital on Wednesday, August 30, 2017
over unpaid entitlements...
The protesters are reportedly angry over their unpaid
entitlements in the last 18 months Premium Times reports that those who took
part in the protest include cleaners, drivers, gardeners and security men and
women. They blocked the gates of the hospital, and stopped medical staff and
patients from moving. Though details of the protest were sketchy at the time of
this report, NAIJ.com reports that Ondo is just one of the states currently
challenged with the burden of salaries and emoluments to workers. The Fede Specifically,
the NUP declared that Ngige was using his position to circumvent the trade
union and pension laws to favor his kinsmen. Briefing the press at the Labor
House, Abuja, the chairman, Electricity Sector branch of the NUP, Mr Abel Olas
Eikhor, accused the minister of directing the Pension Transitional Arrangement
Directorates (PTAD) to circumvent the law and pay union dues into the account
of an individual who is not a member of the union.
Many casual workers at
the Federal Medical Centre in Owo, Ondo state, disrupted activities at
the hospital on Wednesday, August 30, 2017 over unpaid entitlements.
The protesters are reportedly angry over their unpaid entitlements in
the last 18 months. Read more: https://www.naij.com/1122931-hundreds-ondo-workers-lay-siege-hospital-unpaid-allowances.html
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