LASG promises to investigate allegations
Gboyega Akinsanmi
Scores of staff members of the China Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation (CCECC) Wednesday stormed Lagos Governor’s Office, protesting arbitrary sack of about 500 workers by the company and non-payment of their compensation.
The workers flooded the State House displaying placards in protest of what they described as unfair treatment by the CCECC management. They therefore called on the state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, to intervene.
In a letter addressed to the governor, the workers said many of them were in service of CCECC for five years and were laid off without any form of payment, which they said, was a violation of their rights.
The letter, which was signed one of the victims, Mr. Mark Okila, said the protesters would want CCECC “to pay the casual workers sacked N600, 000 severance package and the workers laid off N800,000 several package.”
“We were deprived of our rights while working for the company in such a way that the company will offer us a job without appointment letters. Even when they employ most of their workers for the space of five years, they will not convert them to staff.
“We are treated like slaves in the company and whenever we try to defend our rights, they will start dismissing us from work. They will say that if we are not ready to work in accordance with their policies, we should leave.”
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