The Mangemnt of Ciscon today flounted a direct order by the Honourable Minsister of Labour and Productivity- Sen Chris Ngige to reinstate all wrongly sacked staff immediately. The order was given by the Minister at a meeting with the Pengassan Chairmen and the Mangement of Oil Companies who sacked staff without due consultation with the Union and in line with laid down procedures for redundancy. The Minister ordered all such companies including Ciscon Nigeria Limited to reinstate the sacked staff immediately.

This order was communicated to the MD of Ciscon- MR. Shawley Coker and the HR manger - Chioma Ken-Oshionya immediately.

The staff were however shocked when they got to the ofice today and the mangement flounted the order from the Minister and locked thestaff out. This is the second time the mangment would be flounting a direct order to reinstate staff. The initail directive to re-instate staff had been issued by the Zonal Director at the Ministry of Labour & Productivity in Port Harcourt. The managment of Ciscon had written to the Ministry seeking their help in mediating between them and the Union. However on the date of the meeting, the Ciscon mangment issued termination letters to almost 60 taff members of the Union.

The Director at the ministry was suprised that Ciscon could take such a step without waiting for the mediation meeting, the Director instructed that Ciscon Mgmt reinstate the sacked staff immeditely and then another day be rescheduled to hold the mdeiation talks. The mangment of Ciscon represented at the meeting by the trio of the HR Manager - Chioma Ken Oshionya, Martings Akhimien and Dr. Joe Ejedawe agreed to obey the directive but the following day added new names to the termination list and the HR Manger started sending termination mails by email and even sent to those on the rig.

https://www.nairaland.com/3216471/ciscon-md-sacks-staff-rig

(Notice the well armed men in the background trying to intimidate the staff)

Rather than meet and dialogue with the Union on the way forward, the mangemnt of Ciscon is allegedly rather trying to bribe the Executives of Pengassan both at the branch Level and at the Zonal Level. Some inducement have also been offered to Pengassan staff in Abuja to squash the story. These offers have been made drectly, through calls and through 3rd parties. Also one of the GMs Mr.Yomi Orenuga is also trying very hard to use his influence as a former staff of TOTAL to buy over one of the Pengassan Zonal Executives who is a staff of Total. The evidence of some of these offers are available and in due season would be exposed.

The crux of the current challenge between Ciscon Mangement and Staff is NOT the non-payment of salaries but the d[b]ecison of Mangement to slash already earned Terminal Benefits by over 70%. The staff are simply demanding that Ciscon pay them their due terminal benefit.[/b]

Same thing Diamond Bank did, and they want to make heaven, lol