The
management of Mainstreet Bank Plc, formerly Afribank Plc, Friday, sacked no
fewer than 800 workers despite the Federal Government’s directive to the
management of the bank and organised labour to maintain status quo pending
resolution of labour issues between the management and labour.
It was
gathered that the sack came few days after the Federal Government through the
Ministry of Labour and Productivity at a meeting in Abuja with the organised
labour and management of the bank on the outstanding gratuity of staff of the
defunct Afribank Nigeria Plc.
Meanwhile,
organised labour, yesterday, asked the management of the bank to immediately
reverse the termination or labour and its allies would shut down its operations
nationwide, and describing the management’s action as illegal and unprocedural.
It was gathered that of the 800 affected staff, over
650 were members of the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance
and Financial Institutions, ASSBIFI, affiliated to the Trade Union Congress of
Nigeria, TUC, while the rest were members of the National Union of Banks,
Insurance and Financial Employees, NUBIFIE, affiliated to Nigeria Labour
Congress, NLC.
It was gathered that the management just
locked the affected workers out of the bank’s network, denied them access to
their offices and asked them to wait for their termination letters through
their email boxes.
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