The National Union of Air Transport Employees has assured workers who will be affected in the impending sack by the Nigeria Aviation Handling Company Plc. of the payment of their entitlements.
The General Secretary of NUATE, Olayinka Abioye, gave the assurance when he spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Thursday.
NAN reports that the NAHCo management had recently concluded arrangements to disengage some of its workers over poor health conditions and also to optimise the firm’s operations.
However, Abioye told NAN that the union would ensure the workers were duly compensated before the disengagement.
He said: “The affected workers must be compensated in such a way that when the company asks them to leave, the disengaged workers will be happy and they will not have to suffer when they leave eventually.”
He said NAHCo had embarked on job optimisation due to the complaints that there were manpower shortages in certain units and departments.
Abioye said: “In the process of doing this, it was actually discovered that there were some places that were short-staffed and there were some areas where they have excess manpower.
“So, they are trying to embark on an equitable redistribution of personnel.
“In the course of this exercise, however, they now found out that there are some other staff who have health-related issues and that is what we are trying to address with the management as we move forward.”
He said in the course of the staff optimisation, the management had held a meeting with NUATE and the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria.
He said the two unions had given the management some criteria they must meet before the disengagement.
Abioye noted that the first requirement was that the process must be in compliance with the extant labour laws which the company had accepted to look into.
According to him, it is only when the company has concluded on its own exercise that the union would know the number of workers to be affected.
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