Sigma Pensions, PENGASSAN Partner on Workers’ Welfare

Sigma Pensions Limited and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigerian (PENGASSAN) recently collaborated to sensitise workers on the need to plan for their retirement while they are still in active service.

The sensitisation exercise took place in Owerri, Imo State and Yola, the Adamawa State capital respectively, during the 5th delegates’ conference of the union in both states.

At Owerri, the President of PENGASSAN, Francis Olabode Johnson, reiterated the union’s avowed stance to always resist policy that engendered the employment of workers, such as exploitative with tendency to degrade jobs, as obtained in casualisation and contract employment.In his remarks, the Zonal Chairman of PENGASSAN, Comrade Azubuike M. Azubuike noted that in spite of the economic recession, the union had not deviated from her core objective of protecting her members’ jobs and improving their welfare by evolving mutually sustainable development strategies that carefully integrate labour/industrial relations in a manner that foster productivity, growth, industrial peace and harmony at the workplace through consultation, collaboration, effective communication and speedy resolution of industrial issues.

At the Adamawa conference, the union commended Sigma Pensions for the partnership as well as their commitment towards workers’ welfare.

The representative of Sigma Pensions and Head of Risk Management, Nuhu Modibbo said his organisation was ready to protect pension contribution and gratuity of pensioners in the civil service and other organisation

Modibbo lauded the commitment of his organisation to protect and pay pensioners their pensions and gratuity at the time when due immediately their retirement from office.

However, he commended PENGASSAN for giving them the opportunity to sponsor the conference across the country