NAAPE to protest failure of Aero Contractors to pay off docked workers, seven years after

The National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE) is set for a showdown over non-payment of outstanding redundancy benefits of its members, seven years after they were relieved of their jobs by Aero Contractors.

NAAPE, in a statement sighted by the Nigerian Tribune, titled, ‘Demand for Payment of Outstanding Redundancy Benefits of Our Members,’ accused the management of Aero Contractors of depriving the affected former workers access to their entitled benefits.

The protest letter, addressed to the management of the airline, read, “Consequent upon the avalanche of complaints received from our members who have been deprived of their fundamental entitlements and denied the rightful collection of their redundancy benefits in the last seven years and given the anguish and mental agonies suffered by them, we are compelled, as responsible representatives of these eminent men/women, including the dead, to protest through this letter and express our bitterness over management’s seeming lackadaisical attitude, insincerity and insensitivity to the continued wellbeing of these great Nigerians.

“The Aero management had rendered many workers, including our members (pilots and engineers), redundant since 2017 and every conceivable efforts to ensure that they get their due benefits have been frustrated by the management till date for no good reasons, more so, when it was your management that sent them off after meritorious service to the Nigerian aviation sector.

“Many correspondences, private/personal interventions have been initiated with promises from your good self without any positive result and this cannot continue any longer.

“By this letter, however, your management is hereby encouraged and given up till the end of March 2024 to set the machinery in motion to make full payment of all outstanding redundancy benefits to all beneficiaries.

“The consequences of your failure, neglect and or refusal shall be laid squarely at your doorsteps since ‘he who goes to equity must go with clean hands.’ Enough is enough. It is hoped that your management shall redeem its image on or before this date before this matter is escalated beyond expectations. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.”

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