{"id":10185,"date":"2018-06-28T16:18:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:18:06","slug":"staffers-drag-zuma-steel-coy-to-court-over-unpaid-n65m-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=10185","title":{"rendered":"Staffers drag Zuma Steel Coy to Court over unpaid N65M salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong>Ron-Well Jacob<\/strong>, Jos<br \/>\n14 aggrieved Staff of Zuma Steel West Africa Ltd have dragged the company to the National Industrial Court over N65 million unpaid salaries and allowances for the past 11 years.<br \/>\nThe workers, through their counsel, Mr Eric Duniya, sought nine reliefs before the presiding Judge, Justice Kenneth Amadi of the industrial court, sitting in Jos.<br \/>\nThe staff had claimed that the company had engaged them in May 2006 only to asked to them hold on in March 2017, for what it (management) called &#8220;Turn around maintenance and modernization of the factory.\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nSince then they have been waiting, without the firm minding how they were surviving as it stop paying them the half salary it was giving them.<br \/>\nAccording to them, they were taken aback, when on <a href=\"calendar:T2:Aug. 3, 2017\">Aug. 3, 2017<\/a>, they were individually issued quit notice to vacate their quarters or pay rent of between N100, 000 to N400, 000 depending on the type of accommodation.<br \/>\nThose who are in a single room apartments were asked to pay N100, 000; 1-Bedroom &#8211; N150, 000; 2-Bedroom \u2013 N300, 000; and 3-Bedroom \u2013 N400, 000.<br \/>\nAccording to the workers, they were taken aback by the quit notice more so that there was no letter of disengagement or termination of their appointments by the management of the company, formerly known as Jos Steel Rolling Mill.<br \/>\n&#8220;They (workers) were statutory employed and the only method that the management can disengage or terminate their appointments is through a letter of disengagement or termination of appointment.<br \/>\n&#8220;It\u2019s a service tenancy, they had with the management, so they are entitled to remain in their respective quarters pursuant to the terms contained in their letters of employment, \u2019\u2019 the counsel alleged.<br \/>\nDuniya said, &#8220;they only leave when they are formally disengaged and their entitlements paid to them.\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nWhen the case came up for hearing on Thursday, the Defence Counsel, Mr Ekechukwu Ajunwa, was said to have traveled to Abuja, as he sent a letter to the court in that respect.<br \/>\nMr Nosu Lucky, who represented Ajunwa, applied for an adjournment of the case to enable him (Ajuna) to appear in person to continue with the defence.<br \/>\nDuniya however, did not object to the application.<br \/>\nThe Judge then adjourned the case to Oct. 30 and 31 for hearing.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ydpa1ffe8c9MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ron-Well Jacob, Jos 14 aggrieved Staff of Zuma Steel West Africa Ltd have dragged the company to the National Industrial Court over N65 million unpaid salaries and allowances for the past 11 years. The workers, through their counsel, Mr Eric Duniya, sought nine reliefs before the presiding Judge, Justice Kenneth Amadi of the industrial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}