Why Foreign Airlines Are Set to Sack 2,000 Nigerian Workers Soon
Nigerian
workers with International airlines may soon be crying home jobless as
several airlines plan to relieve as many as 2000 of their jobs.
The National Union of Air Transport Employees , NUATE, has
revealed that foreign airlines plan to sack about two thousand (2,000)
Nigerian workers due to what they claimed is their inability to
transfer their earnings to their respective home countries to meet
operational costs in accordance with international rules because of new
Central Bank of Nigeria , CBN, policy on forex and fund transfer.
In a letter addressed to the Minister of State for Aviation,
Senator Hadi Sirika and made available to newsmen, Acting General
Secretary of NUATE, Comrade Olayinka Abioye said the plan has
destabilize the affected workers, adding that the Federal Government
should wade in and prevent the huge job loss.
According to Abioye , “ The reason being adduced for this
danger is that their earnings in the past year is under lock with the
Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN , as they are unable to transfer these
earnings to their respective home countries to meet operational costs in
accordance with international rules.
“Following concerns raised recently by leaders of these workers
and other stakeholders and in appreciation of the good intent of the
government’s fiscal policy, we humbly make this clarion call for your
(Minister) intervention to grant foreign airlines concession to
repatriate their proceeds to their home countries,” he said.
He added that should the foreign airlines go ahead with the sacking
of the workers it would not be in the interest of the aviation sector
and Nigeria as a whole.
“We hasten to place on the front burner an emerging threat
confronting over 2, 000 private sector aviation workers in Nigeria which
requires your intervention to forestall imminent loss of jobs of these
number of workers,” said Abioye.
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