Many organisations are not paying workers gratuities, the Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) has alleged.
In an interview, its President, Comrade Oyinkan Olasanoye, said: “We realised that the way management of organisations are going these days, they find a way of not paying our members at the end of their service. What belongs to workers which is the gratuity, majority of organisations are no longer paying it.
“So, we realised that when our members are asked to go, nothing is always attached. Because of that we realised that majority of our members would start thinking of tomorrow and delving into some untoward things. To prevent that, in order to have a succour somewhere, that is what informed the proposal on loss of job insurance for members.”
She continued: “We keep on advising our members on the need to allow the union to be more active in decisions and to be properly briefed on the matter. Under no reason should the management lay off somebody anyhow.”
On the sack of workers in financial institutions, she said the law was clear on it.
Olasanoye said under the law, when an organisation wished to lay somebody off, the union in that worker’s sector should be called for negotiation.
She said: “The law didn’t say you can’t lay people off, but there are ways of doing it. We have been appealing to our members that they should not wait until they are laid off.
“The moment they heard the rumour that they were about to be laid off, they should write their management to that effect and let briefed us on who to discuss with.
“We will keep on appealing to our members and management of their companies and employers that the recession and the economic meltdown is one that everyone needs all hands on deck.
‘’We also want to appeal to them that they should let us work together because our sector is a very sensitive and with the meltdown, we can’t afford to have issues that will affect the public trust on the sector that is already corroded by various acts and policies that are not acceptable to the people. We will appeal to the management to let us discuss and go through due process,” she said.
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