Minister of Labour and
Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, and the Association of Senior Servants of
Nigeria have agreed to temporarily put off their strike notice until September
20, 2017.
Ngige, in a statement Tuesday
night by the Deputy Director (Press), Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr.
Samuel Olowookere, said this is to enable the Nigerian government commence the
payment of pending promotion arrears.
He said: “Among others, the
meeting agreed that 30 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) that the
Office of the Accountant General of the Federation reported having cleared
their allowances, amounting to N1.165 billion should start to receive credit of
payment to their account by
September 20, 2017.
“It also agreed the office of the
Accountant General of the Federation should also provide the list of the 30
MDAs in reference to the office of the Minister of Labour and Employment by
September 13, 2017.”
Ngige said the conciliation
meeting further set up a seven-man committee to be chaired by the Permanent
Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Labour, with three members each drawn from
the government negotiating team and the labour association respectively to
oversee the implementation of the decisions.
The minister had earlier while
addressing the union restated the unflinching commitment of the Buhari
administration to the welfare of workers.
“The arrears in question
accumulated for up to a decade but the president very much concerned about the
welfare of the citizens resolved to settle the backlog, knowing that government
is also a continuum.
‘This is a government that has
the interest of workers at heart, the very reason we stoically refused to
retrench any civil servant despite dwindling resources we met and worsened by
the recession,” he said.
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