Exploitation of Contract Workers in the Banking Industry: Study of Banks in Sokoto, Nigeria
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The study assessed the exploitation of casual workers in the Nigerian financial sector, with a specific reference to banks in the Sokoto megalopolis. The objective of the study was to examine the working condition of utmost casual staff in these banks. The study was explicatory and employed a qualitative exploration design; for the purposes of the study, a total of five banks were used as a sample, accounting for 70% of the banks in Sokoto metropolitan. Fifty respondents (casual/contract workers) were purposefully picked from the 171 casual staff members of the selected banks by random sampling to form a sample of the population. Using a key informant interview guide, five management staff members, one from each selected bank, were also interviewed. The study found that the salaries to casual staff in the bank is not commensurate to the work executed, Business Solution enterprises were the major agents in the exploitation of casual workers of banks in Nigeria and these BSFs are possessed by the top directors of the banks; denoting double exploitation, casual staff are being deprived of certain social benefits, allowances, and social security of jobs. The study recommends the perpetration of the transnational labor laws and making of laws to check the casualization of labor in fiscal institutions, that government should ensure strict compliance with the labor laws, and unionization was explosively recommended as a move toward negotiating the rights of casual staff, among others.
Keywords: casual, business solution firms, exploitation of workers, workers’ performance.
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