![]() ![]() The complaint is likely to include challenges to its Amazon Prime product, with the FTC maintaining that the company’s policies forbid vendors from offering lower prices on competing websites and that its terms and conditions force merchants to use Amazon’s logistics and advertising services. Khan rose to prominence as a big-tech sceptic with a 2017 academic paper specifically identifying Amazon as a modern monopolist needing to be reined in. The lawsuit is likely to be filed as soon as August, and will likely challenge a host of Amazon’s business practices and, if successful, could lead to a court-ordered restructuring of Jeff Bezos’ USD 1.3 trillion empire and define the legacy of FTC chair Lina Khan. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is putting the finishing touches to its long-awaited antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, setting the scene for what is likely to be one of the most aggressive moves in the Biden administration’s efforts to tame the power of tech giants. The online retailer’s business practices are being called into question on both sides of the Atlantic. It was said that some of them were ghost workers and others that they were supposed to retire but did not retire.The online retailer’s business practices are being called into question on both sides of the Atlant. “We complained that we were entitled to them, it’s a professional allowance, they are not supposed to take it.”įurthermore, Akuma said, “We learnt that some of our members were taken away (removed) from the payroll over 2,500 of them. ![]() It was just in the month of May and June that we were paid then we discovered on our payroll that they removed our promotion, and two other allowances (for learning and exams) were removed. “So since 2010 we have been collecting that up till today. Teachers were demanding for the Teachers Salary Structure (TSS), we didn’t get that structure (initially) but later, the Northern Governors Forum came together and agreed that they will give us 27.5 percent which they did and implemented it in 2010. “We discovered that we had 27.5 percent which we demanded for it. In 2022, they implemented the promotions by February. “We continued to write circulars to government for government to give us letters of promotion and they gave us letters in 2021. On the senior grade level it is three years, before you will be promoted but we have stayed up to 17 to 18 years and there was no promotion. “It is a law in the civil service that if you stay on a particular grade level for two years, then the next year, you will be promoted. READ ALSO: Businessman Remanded In Prison For Dealing In Adulterated Oil “PDP deems as shocking, despotic and disruptive such actions of the Benue State governor as they are clearly out of alignment with the rule of law and due process, and headed only in the direction of a reversal of the gains made by the immediate past administration of Samuel Ortom in the area of improvement of the terms and conditions of service of teachers in the state”, he stated. “The teachers note among several other things that Governor Alia has arbitrarily demoted them across all grades, reversed their promotions, slashed a 27% statutory allowance package which they fought for and gained as is being enjoyed by their counterparts nationwide. “Yesterday, July 24, 2023, primary school teachers in the state under the aegis of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) rose from an emergency meeting with a 48 hour ultimatum on Governor Alia to reverse all decisions he has taken regarding their emoluments and career advancement, which they deemed as not only questionable, unfair and unjustifiable but above all unlawful. READ ALSO: Boko Haram: 16 Reportedly Slaughtered In Kuda, Kaliyari Villages In Borno ![]()
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