Sequel to the sack of over 800 ExxonMobil staff by the Management of the company, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria PENGASSAN, has issued an ultimatum to the Management of Exxon-Mobil to comply with the Supreme Court Judgement of April 20th.
The Chairman of PENGASSAN, Exxon-Mobil branch, Razaq Obe, who said this in an interview at Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom called for an immediate reinstatement of personnel of the security department, who were unlawfully sacked on July 13 and the payment of all entitlements due them as employees.
He further hinted that the union demanded the management of ExxonMobil to immediately reinstate the 16 employees purportedly sacked in Dec. 2016 in a similar fashion. He called for the immediate repatriation of over 20 expert personnel in security department who had been engaged and kept in defiance of extant Nigerian laws and security directives.
As a union, we have studied the details of the Supreme Court judgement with our legal team and have not seen therein where the company was directed to carry out mass sack of impacted employees in security department as captured by the subject of your communication to the workforce.
Meanwhile, the sacked personnel had on early hours of Monday, barricaded the premises of Qua Iboe Terminal QIT thereby disrupting the activities of the day.
The protesters denied some staff and contractors of the company access to the premises by placing coffins at each gate of the company.
The ExxonMobil facilities blocked included Hotels, Mobil Housing Estates, Airstrips, Lagos and Abuja Qua Iboe Terminal, Ibeno their operational base in Akwa Ibom.
Source: Daily Post
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