
A group under the aegis of Independent Movement of Nigeria on Wednesday appealed to the Governor of Oyo State, Engr Seyi Makinde to absorb casual Staffs of Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic.
The spokesperson of the group, Comrade Adedokun Sunday said it is necessary to absorb casual and part time workers of the Polytechnic that has been working in the institution for over twenty years.
Adedokun said, “there is an acute shortage of staffs in Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic Eruwa, it is more critical. Most institutions have resorted to casualisation of workers and other forms of non-pensionable employment as part of strategies to cut down overhead cost but if they keep doing that, what will be the fate of a common man. The government should consider the casual staffs that has laboured so hard for many years in sustaining the institution.


“We have some casual and part time workers that have spent more than twenty years in the institution. Other institutions in the state has adopted a process of converting casual staffs to permanent positions, College of Agriculture in Igboora, the Polytechnic Ibadan has converted the appointments of casual staffs to permanent workers.
“Section 7 of the Nigerian Labour Act says it is wrong to keep a worker continuously on a job for more than six months without giving him or her a letter of full employment and other conditions of service”, he added.
A staff of the Polytechnic who prefer to be anonymous also told our correspondent that “an approval was given in 2015 during the past administration of Late Governor Ajimobi which was not implemented by the then Rector base on personal interest.”
Another staff of the institution spoke to newsmen confirmed that there was a white paper by the government of the state in 2019 which stated that all Part Time Staffs be regularized but the Governing Council could not effect that till the time they got dissolved.
He said, “we will be able if the state government could consider the staffs and convert their appointment so as to enjoy the dividends and benefits of a full time staff.”


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