My aunt has just been disengaged from service from the family school (nursery/primary) she has been a teacher for 28yrs now without reason(s). This school was built by the late blood uncle of this my aunty and when he died, the daughter who is now the proprietress took over the management of the school and this is how the situation turns out to be today. She has served the school diligently always throughout the period. Well, disengagement from service happens everywhere around the globe but the question is "at what condition is someone disengaged and what are his/her entitlements having been disengaged?" This month salary cheque of N19,880 was written to her and that is all. After good 28yrs of active service? My people, what can she do here to make sure this inhumane act is not treated as intended? Of course you all will agree with me she deserves more than this...not after 28yrs of service. If you add 7yrs to that number of service, one is due for retirement and all entitlements/gratuities will be meted out accordingly to the person. In this her case, what has she left with? Of course, she is no longer young to forget everything and start afresh. At this her age, she deserves nothing but good package such that she can use it to start up something if she must be disengaged from work. Is N19k what she needs? What legal case can be taken to put things on track in this situation? Advice needed pls.

Cc: Lalasticlala, seun, mynd44 etc, i respect you all bosses. Justice is needed here.

#19,880? Is your aunty a corper?
Pardon me pls.....I nothing can be done since it's a private organization
Let her just put her trust in God for survival

Florblu:
#19,880? Is your aunty a corper? Pardon me pls.....I nothing can be done since it's a one man biz Let her just put her trust in God for survival

One man business indeed.

Florblu:
#19,880? Is your aunty a corper? Pardon me pls.....I nothing can be done since it's a one man biz Let her just put her trust in God for survival

One man business indeed.

19,000 for Salary even after 28 years??!!!, Tufiakwa!!!,
That is clear stagnation. The school is clearly backward.

They should have disengaged her like 18 years ago so that she would have invested the years in something else.

Godshand:
My aunt has just been disengaged from service from the family school (nursery/primary) she has been a teacher for 28yrs now without reason(s). This school was built by the late blood uncle of this my aunty and when he died, the daughter who is now the proprietress took over the management of the school and this is how the situation turns out to be today. She has served the school diligently always throughout the period. Well, disengagement from service happens everywhere around the globe but the question is "at what condition is someone disengaged and what are his/her entitlements having been disengaged?" This month salary cheque of N19,880 was written to her and that is all. After good 28yrs of active service? My people, what can she do here to make sure this inhumane act is not treated as intended? [s]Of course you all will agree with me she deserves more than this[/s]...not after 28yrs of service. If you add 7yrs to that number of service, one is due for retirement and all entitlements/gratuities will be meted out accordingly to the person. In this her case, what has she left with? Of course, she is no longer young to forget everything and start afresh. At this her age, she deserves nothing [s]but good package such that she can use it to start up something[/s] if she must be disengaged from work. Is N19k what she needs? What legal case can be taken to put things on track in this situation? Advice needed pls.

Cc: Lalasticlala, seun, mynd44 etc, i respect you all bosses. Justice is needed here.

Don't mean to burst your bubble, but your aunty kind of deserved to be booted out. I mean, how can one work for a private company for more than half a century, and with the end salary being less than 20k? Is she really that dumb? I wonder what she was even teaching those poor children?

Your auntie didn't develop herself at all. 28 years of servitude to her brother with no plans of emancipation? She was comfortably lazy and maybe they felt she wasn't even worth the 19k salary hence the way they treated her.

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28 years of service and they paid her that paltry sum for disengagement! that's the height of man's inhumanity to man!

pls she should sue them to court!

her case might instigate the highly needed wages and pension adjustments and implementations badly needed in the private sector labour laws!



we just cant continue to remain animals in human skin!

doublewisdom:
[s]Your auntie didn't develop herself at all. She was comfortably lazy and maybe they felt she wasn't even worth the 19k salary hence the way they treated her.[/s]

in other climes, people put in 30 years of service in one organization and are handsomely rewarded thru their pension packages - now are u saying such persons are 'comfortably lazy'? for your info, such people are actually highly appreciated in decent organizations cause they form the bedrock of the success of such organisations!

i am an employer and God knows how i appreciate my employees that put in just 3 whole years of service in my organization and am sincerely looking forward to having people that will work in my organization for 10 years without a 'question mark' i will make sure their retirement will be something to write home about - no mater how bad it is, they must be entitled to their basic salary every month and free comprehensive health insurance for them and their immediate dependents!

nwaanambra1:


[s]sorry to say this - your re a very wicked human!

in other climes, people put in 30 years of service in one organization and are handsomely rewarded thru their pension packages - now are u saying such persons are 'comfortably lazy'? for your info, such people are actually highly appreciated in decent organizations cause they form the bedrock of the success of such organisations!

i am an employer and God knows how i appreciate my employees that put in just 3 whole years of service in my organization and am sincerely looking forward to having people that will work in my organization for 10 years without a 'question mark' i will make sure their retirement will be something to write home about - no mater how bad it is, they must be entitled to their basic salary every month and free comprehensive health insurance for them and their immediate dependents![/s]

When a company doesn't promote you or increase your salary after 2 yrs maximum, especially a private company, they don't really value you. Most cases of termination of employment don't happen overnight. There're usually signs in the way they treat you over the months, years, which your quite could have seen and taken proactive steps.

What was her expectations really? Pension? How much would that have come to per month, maybe half of other salary which is N10,000 per month? Truth be told, your aunty's ambitions are so low that its even enough to fire someone!

Truth be told, your aunt didn't try for herself, she was too complacent and unambitious.

I'm not saying she deserves it because I dunno what's the reason for her sack. All I know is that to make any case, you guys have to refer to her employment letter (that is if there's one) and peruse the terms of employment n disengagement.


Don't be surprised, may be you aunty dey form I too know for them, as per se she b the oldest staff for the school. She'd better go back n beg if that's the case oo.

Or she can use her savings from the 19k salary to open another school.

san316:
Truth be told, your aunt didn't try for herself, she was too complacent and unambitious.

I'm not saying she deserves it because I dunno what's the reason for her sack. All I know is that to make any case, you guys have to refer to her employment letter (that is if there's one) and peruse the terms of employment n disengagement.


Don't be surprised, may be you aunty dey form I too know for them, as per se she b the oldest staff for the school. She'd better go back n beg if that's the case oo.

Or she can use her savings from the 19k salary to open another school.

She is not the oldest staff there. There are other staff older in service than she and they are still receiving just about same amount of salary. Reason(s) for termination of appointment is/are not stated. I think there's something that can still be done on this to confront the woman.

Juxtified:


Don't mean to burst your bubble, but your aunty kind of deserved to be booted out. I mean, how can one work for a private company for more than half a century, and with the end salary being less than 20k? Is she really that dumb? I wonder what she was even teaching those poor children?

You may be right though but first, you need to understand there might be reasons why things went that way. This school, especially when she took over has never encouraged one for career growth. Example, if you make attempt to further your education while working, that could earn you a termination letter and as you can see, after working for that long period of time, wouldnt her earning be made better even without asking/applying? I can tell you in this very school, some graduates have worked there for over 30yrs and are earning just the same salary.

Godshand:


You may be right though but first, you need to understand there might be reasons why things went that way. This school, especially when she took over has never encouraged one for career growth. Example, if you make attempt to further your education while working, that could earn you a termination letter and as you can see, after working for that long period of time, wouldnt her earning be made better even without asking/applying? I can tell you in this very school, some graduates have worked there for over 30yrs and are earning just the same salary.

The school is an evil school. Well, what is done is done, no need to fight them legally or otherwise. If she's not too old, she can look for a cheap flat and start a tutorial centre. She doesn't need much money for that. I'm guessing she can't be less than 50yrs old, so going to enslave herself in another teaching job would just mean she hasn't learnt her lessons.

Godshand:


She is not the oldest staff there. There are other staff older in service than she and they are still receiving just about same amount of salary. Reason(s) for termination of appointment is/are not stated. I think there's something that can still be done on this to confront the woman.

Nigerian labor laws are not strong enough to help your aunt. You guys can only appeal to those people's sentiments or intimidate them with a lawyer if they are not that knowledgeable.

op

I guess your rather obvious point here is school and 1988.

A lot of people here just show cased their ignorance, most private schools are small businesses and can barely afford that 19800 that is being paid, the idea is that you use that one to manage while moving onto something more formalized.

Choosing to stay for long period may be because you are getting some extras, who knows if poster aunt is staying in a free accommodation. Nigeria needs a change mentality but it will be hard & that is why corruption fueled by religion still thrives.