Sacked Workers Sue Air Nigeria

As you may already know, Air Nigeria shut down its business and sacked its workers some few weeks ago.
Now those sacked workers have taken the company's chairman, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim and its Chief Executive Officer, Kinfe Kanssaye, before the National Industrial Court in Lagos over what they described as illegal and wrongful termination of their employments, non-payment of salaries and non-remittance of their 7.5 per cent pension scheme contributions.

The workers contended that on September 5, 2012, Air Nigeria terminated their employment unilaterally and compulsorily retired them, they also stated that the termination was communicated to them through media.
The airline owed workers arrears of salaries; from May to August, 2012 although some were paid for the month of May only, while others were not.

The workers also claimed that they had contributed 7.5 per cent of their salaries to the Pension Contributory Scheme, while the company contributed 7.5 per cent but despite deducting this amount from the salaries of the workers, the company had not been remitting same to the pension scheme as agreed upon by employer and employees.

The workers insisted that the money was deducted from their salaries under the Pay As You Earn (PAYE),but that up till moment of their wrongful sack ,there was no evidence of payment of this deductions to the appropriate authority.

The workers want the court to order the defendants to pay them what they are owed and rightfully belongs to them and they also asked the court to direct the defendants to remit forthwith all pension contributions amounting to 15 per cent of the workers emoluments that due and outstanding as agreed in the employment hand book.

 

-ThisDay