{"id":75942,"date":"2025-10-01T13:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75942"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:28:12","slug":"fg-confirms-dangote-to-reabsorb-disengaged-workers-after-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/01\/fg-confirms-dangote-to-reabsorb-disengaged-workers-after-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Confirms Dangote to Reabsorb Disengaged Workers After Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has confirmed that Dangote Group will reabsorb workers recently disengaged from its refinery operations, following a resolution brokered with the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN).<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Mohammed Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed in Abuja on Wednesday that the affected employees will be redeployed across Dangote subsidiaries without any loss of pay or benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a careful review of the disengagement process, it was resolved that Dangote Group should immediately redeploy the affected workers across its subsidiaries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No employee will be victimised for their role in the disagreement between the company and PENGASSAN,\u201d the minister stated.<\/p>\n<p>He added that PENGASSAN has agreed to begin steps toward suspending its industrial action, describing the compromise as a good-faith decision aimed at protecting jobs and sustaining industrial peace.<\/p>\n<p>Dingyadi also stressed that workers\u2019 right to unionise remains protected under Nigerian law.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute began when PENGASSAN accused the refinery\u2019s management of arbitrarily terminating Nigerian workers and replacing them with foreign staff. The union branded the move as a violation of labour rights.<\/p>\n<p>Dangote Group, however, denied carrying out mass sackings, insisting that its restructuring was an operational decision unrelated to union membership.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions escalated after PENGASSAN cut off gas and crude oil supplies to the refinery, raising fears of energy disruptions and wider economic fallout.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government stepped in, warning that the standoff threatened national energy security.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest agreement, officials expressed optimism that normalcy will return to the oil and gas sector and that industrial harmony will be sustained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; The Federal Government has confirmed that Dangote Group will reabsorb workers recently disengaged from its refinery operations, following a resolution brokered with the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Mohammed Maigari Dingyadi, disclosed in Abuja on Wednesday that the affected employees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75944,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75942\/revisions\/75944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}