The Lagos state chapter of Campaign for the Defence of Human Rights, CDHR, has issued 21 days ultimatum to the management of Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, to pay compensation to its sixty former staff, who were said to have been ‘unjustly sacked’ July last year.
The group through its state chairman, Comrade Isiak O. Buna, issued the ultimatum when the sacked staff of the service visited the Lagos office of the group at the weekend.
The former staff of FIRS were on July 15, issued a compulsory letter of retirement, which FIRS said was done in accordance with the Section 7 of number 13 of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (Establishment) Act.
The letter of compulsory retirement signed by Mr. Theo Adejor, an Assistant Director, Employer Relation and Discipline, was said to had been issued to the affected staff due to their inability to meet up with the organisation’s ‘transitional arraignment offer’.
The management of FIRS was said to have between 2010 and 2011, issued the affected workers a letter of ‘implementation’ owing to section 63 of FIRS Establishment Act, 2007, which gave room for employments career improvement, with clauses such as; acceptance of offer, minimum qualification, withdrawal of service, with a stipulated 60 days as a deadline for acceptance of the transitional agreement.
And that the affected workers were shocked when they were issued letters of compulsory retirement on July 31 instead of December 31, 2013.
The group also claimed that the sacked workers were also short-changed in the area of repatriation allowance, internal graduate benefit, staff welfare scheme and one year consolidation. While it claimed that all efforts to ensure that the affected workers get their benefit have been truncated by the management of FIRS.
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Group gives FIRS 21-day ultimatum over sacked workers
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