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‘Sacked Ecobank ‘staff’ protest: How can you pay me N120,000 after years of hard work?
Disengaged former ‘staff of Ecobank Nigeria, on Thursday, blocked the Victoria Island, Lagos headquarters the bank their sack
The protesters accused the management of the bank of sacking over 1000 workers without paying the expected benefits.
They alleged the bank’s management disengaging them without paying them what was due to them.
The protesters said they were were often made to come to work on weekends, but at in the end, were disengaged without consulting the union, and without being paid what is due to them.
The bank’s management, however, in a statement, denied sacking workers.
It said it only decided against renewing the contract from its third party recruitment agencies.
The bank also added that some palliatives had been put in place by the bank to cushion the effects on those affected.