CASUAL workers of Dag Motorcycle Industries (Nigeria) Limited, popularly known as Bajaj, Isolo, Lagos almost clashed with the policemen during the protest against the termination of their service by the company yesterday.

The workers who were recruited for the company by Ashton Consulting Company regretted the way and manner their service was terminated by the company.

The leaders of the workers, Femi Ogungbenro said that the workers deserved more than the paltry amount of money the company was offering them as severance package.
“We want to know the reasons for the termination of service, if it is the appointment letters that they promised us that made them to do that. Let them pay each one of us one year salary. That is what we want.”

Ogungbenro who has been working for the company since 2009 as a casual worker recalled that by last year October, they asked the management of the company for increment in salaries.
“We also demanded for our appointment letters. They said that they were going to give us our appointment letters this January. They increased our salaries in November. Unfortunately, we are now receiving alerts of termination of our service on our phones?

He recalled that hitherto the company paid N1.40k. per motorcycle the person produced.
“In a day we can produce 1, 280 bikes. Sometimes we produced more than that.
Sometime last year, we said that we want fixed salaries. Then they started paying us fixed salaries according to our length of service. I was receiving N55, 000 per month.”

He recalled that they were asked not to come to work last Thursday but only to have their appointments terminated.
“That Thursday, they told us that they had terminated our service and the contract of the agent that hired us, that we should go to the office of the agent.
On getting to the office of the agent around 8.am today (yesterday) we did not meet the agent.”

He added that one of his supervisors that addressed them said that they were going to give each of them one month salary as a severance package.
“Now I heard that the same agent is now calling new set of people to come and resume work on Monday.”
However, when The Guardian contacted the company on the issue, the management said that they were not ready to comment yet.