Enterprise Bank Ltd., one of
the nationalised banks, has retrenched about 150 workers.
Checks by the News Agency of
Nigeria on Monday showed that the affected workers were part of the 250 staff
nationwide pencilled down for rationalisation.
Sources close to the bank
told NAN that the sack caught across all units of the bank.
At some of the branches on
the Lagos Island, workers who confirmed the rationalisation, said that fear and
apprehension had enveloped workers in most of the branches.
He said that the bulk of
them were living in fear as the management could call on anybody to resign.
Efforts by NAN to confirm
the reasons for the retrenchment from the banks’ management proved abortive.
The Association of Senor
Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions has confirmed the mass
sack.
Mr Emma Ilodianya, one of
ASSBIFI secretaries, said that fractionalisation of the union was affecting the
urgent resolution of the crisis in Enterprises Bank.
“The bank’s workers belong
to a faction of the ASSBIFI that is affiliated to Trade Union Congress, while
our own faction belongs to the Nigerian Labour Congress.
“I can only confirm to you
that 250 workers were sack by the bank, but we are not handling the issue from
this end,” Ilodianya said.
One of the affected staff,
who spoke to NAN on the condition of anonymity, said he was retrenched without
any tangible reason.
He said that the management
was sacrificing junior workers because of their refusal to reduce their
salaries.
NAN reports that Enterprise
Bank, had on Feb. 14, 2012, asked 150 of its workers to resign or face sack
without any reason.
The Assets Management
Corporation of Nigeria earlier in September, 2013 invited interested buyers to
acquire 100 per cent stake in the bank. (NAN)
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