Court reinstates 32 Ekiti varsity Employees

Court reinstates 32 Ekiti varsity Employees
The direction December 5, 2019, disengaged over 900 of its workforce for alleged certification forgery, irregular appointment, overage, along with other allegations that contravened its terms of service.

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In a lawsuit, 32 technologists of the researchers dragged EKSU, EKSU Governing Council, and EKSU Vice-Chancellor (first to third party defendants) into the Industrial Court to seek redress.

They requested the court to determine whether their employment with EKSU loved statutory protection and whether their disengagement was compatible with their status of occupation, which appreciated the statute.

Amongst others, they sought a declaration of the court their disengagement as employees of EKSU” from the manner it was done was unlawful, irregular, illegal and so null and void and of no effect.

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“An arrangement for the restoration and reinstatement of their claimants for their own offices without loss of wages, promotions, emoluments, and other allowances for them as workers of the first respondent (EKSU).

“Payment of the claimants’ three months salaries, emoluments, and other allowances owed them before the purported and unlawful disengagement.”

But counsel to the college prayed the court to not grant the request of their 32 technologists, stating they had been able to establish from the case which their appointments with EKSU were unlawfully determined.

After listening to this submission of the claimants’ and defence’s adviser, the presiding judge, Justice K. D. Damulak, declared the termination of the workers’ appointment as”unlawful, null and void.”

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