Oil Workers Beg NASS, Others For Laws To Protect Jobs

There is no doubt that like other private-sector workers, this is one the most trying periods for workers in the nation’s petroleum industry as the Covid-19 pandemic has worsened their plight.
Oil workers are faced with increasing challenges of job security and unfair labour practices, among others in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
President of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Prince Williams Akporeha, in a fraternal message to the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), called on the National Assembly and all industry regulatory and monitoring agencies to come up with laws and policies to save Nigeria workers in the oil and gas industry.
According to him, while NUPENG today celebrated the burning fire of collaboration existing with PENGASSAN, especially in the fight against unfair labour practices in the oil and gas industry, such as casualisation and outsourcing, he said, “our joint unrepentant positions in canvassing for the speedy passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, Local Content Amendment Bill, struggles against casualisatiion, which gave rise to industry guidelines on outsourcing, contract labour and prompt caution to employers not to take the advantage of Covid-19 pandemic to unleash unnecessary redundancies on our members are pointers to NUPEN/PENGASSAN collaborative efforts to protect and project the rights and welfare of the oil and gas workers during this period under review.”