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| Aged Pensioners waiting for their entitlement |
Seventy-Seven retirees, affected in the batch 2010 retirement exercise of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd, Western Division, Delta State, have dragged the company before the National Industrial Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
They are praying the court to compel the company to pay them N800 million, adding that the amount was their lawful severance entitlement following their sack, occasioned by their forceful retirement by the company due to its divestment exercise in 2010.
The retirees, Mr Sunday Olokor, Joseph Olley, and others, said: “We were all staff of Shell
Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd, Western Division, Warri, Delta State, until 2010 when we were all sacked from the service of the company in its divestment exercise, without paying us our over N800 million entitlements for loss of job.”
They are praying the court “To compel the company to pay us the amount as our severance package due to our loss of work occasioned by our disengagement from the service of the company in 2010 while it was doing its divestment exercise.”
The plaintiffs said they served the company meritoriously, “Between eight to 29 years each, amounting to an aggregate of over 500 years until 2010 when we were all disengaged from the company due to its divestment exercise, without the mandatory payment of our over N800m severance money as contained in the company’s Managing Director’s News Letter to that effect.”
Source: Vanguard
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