Month After UBA Terminated ‘Bullied’ Workers’s Contracts, Recruiters Withhold Their Salaries
Recruitment corporations that the United {Bank} for Africa employs to rent workers for its Buyer Fulfilment Centre (CFC) in Lagos State have but to pay the salaries of a minimum of 10 staff sacked in early April, FIJ has gathered.
The Press earlier reported on April 6 how some staff wrote an nameless e-mail to the {bank}’s administration, complaining about how Uzoamaka Onyeka, head of the UBA CFC, and Oluchi Akaeme, CFC unbound unit supervisor, insulted and harassed them.
The {bank} then withdrew entry to its servers from the staff it suspected have been behind the report and tasked safety personnel with preserving them off firm grounds. What adopted have been exit interviews with the hirers and termination letters.
Whereas UBA kicked them out on April 4, the hirers didn’t inform them they have been being let go, and one served them backdated termination letters that learn April 7, 2025, after a number of days of probe.
ICS Outsourcing Restricted, Tribest Company Help, Strategic Outsourcing and C & I Outsourcing are 4 recruiters that FIJ learnt had terminated workers contracts.
Though ICS issued a termination letter and paid the contractually sure wage on Could 6, workers who received into UBA via different recruiters say they’ve but to obtain their due.
The press quizzed these former workers. “No, they haven’t paid us something,” they stated.
The press noticed the entry-level contracts of among the sacked staff. Whereas they’ve all moved to extra everlasting contracts, the probation contracts state that the corporate would pay workers upon termination until they’re discovered responsible of infractions.
On Thursday, FIJ referred to as all 4 recruiters. ICS was the one recruiter who answered the telephone name. They stated they may not touch upon particulars of the contract.
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