Casual workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria have dragged the company and the Bureau of Public Enterprises to the National Industrial Court in Ibadan, Oyo State over their unpaid entitlements.
The workers, numbering more than 500, were at the court’s premises on Monday over the suit.
The counsel to the aggrieved workers, Ahmed Tarfa, told the court that the workers were employed as casual staff and corporate guards by PHCN prior to the privatisation by the BPE.
Tarfa said the workers had met all the requirements of the defendants for regularisation and re-designation from casual or contract staff to permanent staff of PHCN as at December 31, 2009.
Tarfa said the workers were entitled to payment of their salaries, severance packages, gratuities, pension and other entitlements as regularised staff of PHCN.
He urged the court to direct the defendants to pay the claimants all the salaries, severance packages, gratuities, pension and other entitlements accrued as due to employees of PHCN.
The case could not continue as the defendants have yet to appear in court to file the necessary documents for defence.
Tarfa told the court that if the defendants failed to appear to file the necessary documents by the next adjourned date, he might plead to be allowed to prove the claimants’ case.
Justice Edith Agbakoba adjourned the case until September 23 for hearing.
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