PTML Pays 84 Aged Dockworkers Retirement Benefits
PTML Pays 84 Aged Dockworkers Retirement Benefits
….. surpasses recommended CBA payments for Dockworkers
By Frank Odinukaeze
The Management of Ports & Terminal Multi services Limited (PTML) Tin Can Island Port, Apapa recently paid all 74 Aged disengaged Dockworkers wages and benefits, while 10 of the deceased Dockworkers were also paid through their next of Kins, bringing the total to 84
Comrade John Kennedy Ikemefuna,media head of the Union,in statement stated that the payment exercise was made under the supervision of Comrade Bello Abubakir (VPG) who represented the President -General of Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), Comrade Ibrahim Ohize, President, Dockworkers Branch of the MWUN and other officials of the Union.
Prince Adeyanju noted that since inception of the terminal, this is the very first time that PTML will be applying the minimum salary standard (NJIC) to the fullest, even surpassing what was recommended in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the payment of Dockworkers retirees in its Terminal and it’s worthy of emulation by other terminals who have not done theirs and advised that they should follow suite.
The foremost Maritime Labour leader, Dr. Adeyanju, praised the management of PTML for taking such laudable bold step ito putting smiles on the faces of both the aged retirees and the family of the deceased who got the entitlements of their departed beloved ones.
