The Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited, operators of the Murtala Muhammed Airport terminal two, said on Thursday it had recalled all the dismissed 37 workers, noting that it had also paid October salary to the workers.
The PUNCH had reported on Tuesday that the protesting Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria shut down the terminal over the sacking of their colleagues by Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited.
However, the association in a statement on Tuesday, ended the industrial action against Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited over the sacking of 37 members of the association without due process.
According to a statement on Thursday by the Head of Corporate Communications, Oluwatosin Onalaja BASL said this was part of the resolutions reached following the intervention of the federal government.
However, ATSSSAN called off the industrial action after the intervention by the Ministry of Labour and Employment, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, the Federal Airports Authority, the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency and other airport security agencies at a meeting in Lagos.
But BASL said, “A resolution was reached on the same day of the strike action, after a stakeholders’ meeting mediated by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.
“The stakeholders’ meeting concluded that the staff should be recalled on the clear instruction that they should not report to work.
“The issue of appropriate severance packages will be mediated between the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, the unions and BASL. The alleged outstanding salary, which is for October 2022, due at the end of October 2022 and thus not a delayed salary, should be paid and has since been paid by BASL.”
Contact: [email protected]
