Bank workers protest contract termination, demand entitlements

Some workers with Access Bank Plc have protested against the alleged termination of their contracts and non-payment of their entitlements.

The workers, who protested at the bank’s head office in the Victoria Island area of Lagos State on Wednesday, carried placards depicting their agitations.

Some of the placards read, ‘Stop Access Bank brutality. More than 2,000 sacked’, ‘Access, pay us our entitlements’, ‘What does the future hold for support staff?’, ‘Stop enslaving Nigerians in their country’.

The workers accused the bank of terminating the contracts of over 2,000 workers without paying their entitlements.

Some of the workers, who spoke to PUNCH Metro, said trouble started on April 31, 2020, when the bank laid some staff off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was gathered that the bank recalled the workers after the intervention of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Federal Government.

Our correspondent was told that though the workers were recalled, they were asked to stay away from the office, as the bank continued to pay their salaries.

However, events took another turn on November 30, 2020, when some of them were served with letters terminating their appointments from their various outsourcing firms.

Credit: punchng.com

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