How Oyo NLC resolved IBEDC/Staff face-off

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Oyo State Council, on Tuesday, waded into the industrial disharmony between Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) and its outsourced staff over salary increases, pension remittances, and other welfare matters.

It would be recalled that the staff had begun last Friday, stemming from the workers’ dissatisfaction with their employer’s failure to improve their welfare packages.

The chairman of NLC in the state, Kayode Martins, led some of his executive members to the outsourced company’s premises to hold what he described as a family meeting to find an amicable solution to all demands.

He met with Mr. Wale Adeniji, the managing director of the outsourcing recruitment agency, the Divisional Police Officer of Oluyole Estate, and workers’ representatives.

At the end of the meeting, all parties agreed to sheathe their swords by resuming work, and no worker would be victimised or sacked as a result of his or her participation in the protest, while meetings would continue to resolve some of the issues before this weekend.

Some of their demands include the implementation of the new minimum wage, the regularisation of outsourced staff to IBEDC staff, prompt payment and remittance of Retirement Savings Accounts (RSA), standard healthcare services, and other pressing issues.