1,444 sacked Mobil staff request N11 billion, caution of upsetting results if organization neglects to pay

Exactly 1,444 staff terminated from the oil firm Mobil in Akwa Ibom have requested to be paid N11.4 billion in terminal advantages and remuneration.

Beforehand drew in as contract staff, the specialists said they were laid off without privileges due them, disregarding an aggregate dealing concurrence with Mobil.

Representative for the gathering, Godwin Idim, told a question and answer session in Eket that Mobil reneged in its legally binding concurrence with the ex-specialists and that all endeavors to make the organization to respect its side of the deal demonstrated fruitless.

He said some of their individuals have passed on in the reason for the battle to get Mobil to the transaction table keeping in mind the end goal to dispatch the extraordinary monetary cases.

Idim cautioned that inability to pay them will have results on the organization and the Niger-Delta locale when all is said in done considering the rising security challenges in the district lately.

He approached the State Governor Udom Emmanuel to intercede in the matter and spare the circumstance before it takes another measurement.

In the interim, direction to the separated laborers, Jacob B. Udobang had composed to Mobil, helping them to remember the need to settle the laborers since the understanding it marked with NUPENG and administration contract staff in regards to their end of administration in July 2010 still subsists.

Endeavors to talk with the administration of Mobil was not effective, but rather a ranking staff of the organization who favored secrecy said the ex specialists' cases are not valid.

Our journalist additionally acquired a letter composed by Mobil on the matter. In the letter dated February 25, 2013 and marked by Mr. Justin Ezeala, Mobil said it had no commitment whether specifically or in a roundabout way for installment of terminal advantages and privileges to the separated laborers.

"We don't know about any Labor Contract Collective Bargaining Agreement dated July 1, 2010 or some other date, marked amongst MPN and agents of your customer. We are not likewise mindful of any meeting on January 21, 2008 or whatever other date wherein MPN administration concurred with agents of your customer on the terms of the said CBA," the letter read.