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(Write the date here)
The Chairman
Local Government Service
Commission
(Write the LGA here)
(Write the State here)
Dear Sir
LETTER OF COMPLAINT ON THE REFUSAL TO PAY THE GRATUITY
OF MR. (NAME OF CLIENT)
We
refer to your letters dated 13th June, 2013 and 7th
September, 2013 which is our response to your letter dated 21st
June, 2013 all in respect to the above subject matter. Copies of all
correspondence are attached herewith.
The
above attachments speak for themselves and show the effort our client has made
to resolve this matter amicably without resorting to litigation. However for
avoidance of doubt, permit us to narrate the bare facts again;
(a)
That our client
joined the service of your Commission on 25th October, 1979 as an establishment
labourer. See the attached letter of employment.
(b)
That evidence of
his birth which is statutory declaration of age deposed to on 20th
June, 1978, was submitted to your Commission at the time of his employment,
which clearly showed that our client was born on 30th day of June, 1950. See
attached copy of the said age declaration.
(c)
That owing to
error by your Commission our client was wrongfully retried vide your notice of
retirement dated 20th June, 2010, which notice backdated his
retirement to 1st November, 2007. See the attached copy of the retirement
notice.
(d)
Upon our protest
over the wrongful and untimely retirement, your Commission responded and gave
our client’s date of birth as 1st April, 1947, but every effort we have made to
ascertain the source of your information on our client’s date of birth
especially vide our letter dated 7th September, 2013 has yielded no
positive result.
(e)
In view of the
forgoing, we decided to leverage on your Commission advise as contained in
paragraph (iv) of your said letter by approaching the Local Government Staff
pensions Board for the payment of our client’s gratuity, but we have been told
in clear terms that our client over stayed his service period and as such was
not entitled to his gratuity.
Sir,
it is against this backdrop that we are appealing and insisting that the
obvious mistake from your Commission with respect to our client’s date of birth
be corrected so as to enable our client to receive his gratuity and exit from
your Commission’s employment gracefully. It is certainly an act of injustice in
the highest order for our client to forfeit his gratuity after almost (30)
thirty years of meritorious service to your Commission on account of your
Commission’s error.
We
trust that this letter will given expedited attention so as to save our client
from suffering unduly.
Thank
you.
Yours
faithfully,
For:
(Write the name of the law firm here)
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