The House of Representatives has called on the
Central Bank of Nigeria to sanction commercial
banks that use casual staff to run their critical
operations .

The call followed the unanimous adoption of a
motion moved by Amobi Akintola at the
plenary on Wednesday .

Adopting the motion , the lawmakers called on
commercial banks “ to convert their casual staff
who are handling core operations to permanent
staff without further delay. ”
They urged the CBN “ to sanction any bank that
fails to comply . ”

The House also mandated the Committees on
Banking and Currency ; and Labour ,
Employment and Productivity to interface with
banks “ on the need to stop casualisation of
their core operational staff . ”

Moving the motion , Akintola recalled that prior
to the emergence of new generation banks in
Nigeria , staff of banks were usually made up of
full- time workers who were entitled to series of
benefits from the banks they worked for .

He said the benefits included promotion , health
package, productivity , life insurance policy ,
housing allowance , wardrobe allowance ,
feeding allowance , among others , which made
banking jobs enviable.

He said that the House was also concerned that
core operations of banks like were being
handled by contract staff .

Seriously I wonder where we Borrowed the idea of contract staffs from in our Banking system