NORMALCY RETURNS TO ORITSEMEYSIN OIL RIG AFTER OPERATORS, NUPENG STRIKE DEAL
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Striking members of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, have suspended the over one-week industrial action that crippled activities at the Oritsemesyin oil rig following an agreement reached between the management and Union supervised by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
It was reported that both parties reached an agreement Wednesday night after two days of intense meetings at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, sequel to the intervention by the Labour Minister.
The Minister’s intervention prevented the crisis from snowballing into a nationwide strike by NUPENG which was already backed by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association, PENGASSAN.
The conciliatory meeting was between the leadership of NUPENG and management of Selective Marine Oil and Gas Limited/her contractors such as Rued Environmental Systems Ltd, Energy Edge Petroleum, Stelog Energy Ltd, Thomas Edin Ltd, and NUPENG to resolve the issue of severance benefits for the employees working on the Oritsetimeyin Oil Rig being operated by Selective Marine Oil and Gas and Dutchford E&P.
According to the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, signed by parties “In response to the threat of a nationwide industrial action issued by NUPENG due to allegation of Anti-union and unfair labour Polices and Postures against the Management of Selective Marine Oil and Gas Limited/its Contractors concerning the workers on Oritsemesyin Oil Rig, the Minister of Labour and Employment in the discharge of his statutory responsibility to ensure industrial peace and harmony in workplaces across the nation convened a Conciliation meeting involving all parties in the issue.”
After an exhaustive deliberation on the issues, it was agreed that agreed that an End of Contract Bonus shall be paid to each of the employees, redundancy payment of one and half months gross salary across board shall be paid to each of the employees, Ex-gratia shall be paid to each of the employees and all outstanding salaries shall be paid to the employees up to date.
It was also agreed that management undertakes to pay all entitlements above to each employee account within four weeks from November 13, 2024, and that HMO shall continue to run until the end of the year in December, 2024, among others.
Equally agreed that “There shall be no victimization of any employee(s) as a result of the
Industrial action embarked upon by the workers. Based on these points of agreements, the industrial action is hereby suspended. The parties agreed that subsequent industrial relations matters should be handled using the internal mechanism available to parties and in line with the provisions of the law.
“In view of this intervention, no worker/management should be victimized for participating in the process, and parties should not engage in any strike, lockout or any action that can work against industrial and harmony in the company.”
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