{"id":61717,"date":"2018-04-17T04:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T03:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=61717"},"modified":"2018-04-17T04:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T03:30:02","slug":"human-rights-activist-issues-thisday-7-day-ultimatum-to-pay-outstanding-entitlements-of-ex-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/human-rights-activist-issues-thisday-7-day-ultimatum-to-pay-outstanding-entitlements-of-ex-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Activist Issues THISDAY 7-day Ultimatum to Pay Outstanding Entitlements of Ex-Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

A human rights activist, and Director at Citizens Advocacy for Social and<\/span>
Economic Rights (CASER), Barrister, Frank Tietie, on Monday gave the<\/span>
management of THISDAY newspaper seven days notice within which to pay its<\/span>
former staff outstanding salaries, entitlements and remit pension deducted<\/span>
from their salaries over the years.<\/span>

Addressing a cross section of the media over its initial call for a state<\/span>
of emergency in the country\u2019s private media following formal complaints<\/span>
from former staff of THISDAY of long unpaid salaries, entitlements and<\/span>
pension remittances in Abuja, he said CASER’s intervention is based on the<\/span>
fact that former staff who have retired disengaged are being owed salary<\/span>
arrears.<\/span>

The lawyer said: \u201cCASER therefore issues to the management of the Company<\/span>
a seven days notice that unless the salary arrears together with<\/span>
entitlements and unremitted pension deductions are paid within the same<\/span>
period, it shall on behalf of the former workers cause the institution of<\/span>
various legal proceedings against THISDAY Newspaper Ltd, which would<\/span>
include but not limited to the liquidation company to ensure that the<\/span>
salary arrears, entitlements and pension deductions are paid.<\/span>

He expressed confidence that this citizens protection demand notice would<\/span>
be taken seriously and therefore acted upon with the urgency that it<\/span>
deserves, adding that as a matter of law, every Nigerian citizen under the<\/span>
international covenant of economic social and cultural rights to which<\/span>
Nigeria is a signatory every Nigerian citizen has the right to work and<\/span>
when you work you are also entitled to be paid.<\/span>

According to him, the injustice being done to the workers of Nigerian<\/span>
private media is what CASER is addressing, stressing: \u201cIt is not only for<\/span>
those persons who are currently retired unjustly or owed unjustly, and for<\/span>
those who are in the service of these media houses. CASER maintained that<\/span>
the culture of failing to pay gratuities to media worker is a direct<\/span>
subversion or threat to Nigerian democracy and we will do everything<\/span>
possible to support these troubled, suffering deprived former staff of<\/span>
THISDAY with every form of support that we can muster to ensure that they<\/span>
get their entitlement.<\/span>

\u201cWe have observed that the welfare of media workers in the country is in<\/span>
disarray and this constitute a threat to proper news gathering and<\/span>
production and ultimately a threat to the sustenance of democracy because<\/span>
section 22 of the Constitution which imposes a constitutional duty on the<\/span>
journalists to report news in such a manner that it will hold government<\/span>
accountable to the people will be defeated if a journalist can no longer<\/span>
holds its ground by being independent but now practices journalism based<\/span>
on stomach infrastructure.\u201d<\/span>

According to him, “a practicing journalist is now driven by who gives him<\/span>
money to determine what he publishes and it is a threat to democracy and<\/span>
an affront to the rights of the citizens to fair reporting. Therefore,<\/span>
when we sounded that alarm workers of THISDAY informed us of the state of<\/span>
affairs in that company noting that they are being owed salary arrears,<\/span>
pension funds and entitlements that were deducted but not remitted to<\/span>
their Retirement Saving Accounts (RSA).<\/span>

They have now retired and there is nothing to fall back on, salaries and<\/span>
arrears and entitlements are being owed. Pension deduction they don\u2019t have<\/span>
or is it crime to be a journalist?”, he asked.<\/span>

The media, Titie said, is currently faced with threat of extinction and we<\/span>
want to use the current non-payment of pension, due entitlements and<\/span>
arrears as a starting point in redeeming the constitutional place of the<\/span>
media in the country.<\/span>

\u201cWe are starting with the insistence that these entitlements be paid or<\/span>
else we would invoke the provision of the Nigerian law which will lead to<\/span>
the liquidation of these companies their properties, cars and whatever<\/span>
they have will then be sold and the monies used to pay these workers and<\/span>
then every media houses will become serious,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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