After days of intense
negotiations, the federal government of Nigeria and the country’s labour unions
have reached a deal on the implementation modality of the new minimum wage.
Disagreement over how the new
minimum wage law signed by President Muhammadu Buhari in April would be
implemented had lingered for months, with organised labour threatening to
strike.
The Minister for Labour and
Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed news of the much-awaited agreement early
Friday morning in Abuja shortly after a government team he led concluded a
meeting with labour.
The meeting, which began at
8:24pm Thursday, ended 3am Friday.
The disagreement had centred
around the consequential adjustments in salaries that must be implemented
across board in line with the new minimum wage law.
Labour is demanding a 29 per cent
salary increase for officers on salary level 07 to 14, and 24 per cent
adjustment for officers on salary grade level 15 to 17.
But the federal government
offered 11 per cent salary increase for officers on grade level 07 to14, and
6.5 per cent adjustment for workers on grade level 15 to 17.
NEW AGREEMENT
Speaking after the five-hour
meeting, Mr Ngige said the consequential adjustment agreed upon are as follows:
“For COMESS wage structure Grade
level 7 gets 23 per cent, Salary grade level 8 gets 20 per cent, Salary grade
level 9 gets 19 per cent Salary grade level 10 -14 gets 16 per cent while
Salary grade level 15-17 gets 14 per cent
”For those on the second category
of wages structure, CONHES, CONRRISE, CONTISS etc, Level 7 gets 22.2 percent,
Level 8-14 gets 16 per cent , Level 15-17 gets 10.5 percent
He said the third category of the
country’s wage structure which are military and paramilitary officers were also
factored in in the agreement.
“Since they are not in the civil
service , theirs will be communicated through the appropriate channels. Their
percentages of increase is confidential,” he said.
MINIMUM WAGE
President Buhari signed the new
minimum wage bill into law in April 2019. But its implementation has been
stalled over salary adjustments disagreement between the labour unions and
government representatives.
Specifically, the problem centred
around the issue of relativity and consequential adjustments of salaries for
various categories of workers.
On May 14, the federal government
inaugurated the relativity and consequential adjustment committee, which set up
a technical subcommittee to work out a template for the adjustment of salaries
of public service employees in line with the minimum wage law.
BELOW IS THE FULL AGREEMENT
REACHED BY BOTH PARTIES
MEMORANDUM OF TERMS OF SETTLEMENT
REACHED AT THE END OF THE CONCILIATION MEETINGS ON CONSEQUENTIAL ADJUSTMENTS OF
THE OTHER WAGES FOLLOWING THE NEW NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE OF N30, 000 HELD AT THE
INSTANCE OF THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT (HML&E)
BETWEEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA AND ORGANISED LABOUR ON 9TH, 14TH,
15TH, 16TH ,17TH AND 18TH OCTOBER , 2019, AT THE CONFERENCE ROOM OF THE
HONOURABLE MINISTER, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT, ABUJA.
PRESENT
CONCILIATORS
1. SEN. (DR) CHRIS NGIGE, OON –
HON. MINISTER OF LABOUR & EMPLOYMENT – CHIEF CONCILIATOR
2. FESTUS KEYAMO, SAN – HON.
MINISTER OF STATE, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT – DEPUTY
CONCILIATOR
JOINT NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE
NEGOTIATING COUNCIL (JNPSNC)
GOVERNMENT SIDE
i. Dr. Folasade. Yemi- Esan – Ag.
Head of the Civil Service of the Federation
ii. Mr. Ekpo Nta – Ag Chairman,
National Salaries, Incomes and Wages
Commission (NSIWC)
iii. William Nwankwo Alo –
Permanent Secretary, Fed. Min. of Labour & Employment
(FML&E)
iv. Sir Olusegun Adeyemi Adekunle
– Permanent Secretary General Services Office (GSO)
Office of the Secretary To The
Government Of The Federation
v. Mr. B.O.C. Omogo – Director
Organisational Development & Design (ODD) representing Permanent Secretary
of OHSCF
Service Policy & Strategy
Office (SPSO)
vi. Mr. Olusanya Ajakaye –
Secretary, National Assembly (NASS) Service Commission
vii. Mr, Bassey E. Bassey –
Secretary Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC)
viii. Gideon Mitu – Director
(Expenditure)- Social, Budget Office of the
Federation (BoF) representing
Director General, Budget
ix. Mr. Olusegun Olufehinti,
(FCA) – Director, Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System
(IPPIS) representing Accountant
General of the Federation
LABOUR
xii. Com. Lawal Alade Bashir
xiii. Com. Yahaya Y, Yashi
xiv. Com. John O, Ushie
xv. Com. T. A. Shettima
xvi. Com, Bobboi B, Kaigama
xvii. Com. Biobelemoye J. Josiah
xviii. Com. Amaechi Lawrence
IN ATTENDANCE
ORGANISED LABOUR
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)
i. Com. Ayuba Wabba, mni
ii. Com. Ameachi Asugwuni
iii. Com. Emma. Ugboaja
iv. Com. Ibrahim Khaleel, mni
v. Com. Marwan M, Adamu, mni
vi. Com. Issa Aremu, mni
Trade Union Congress (TUC)
i. Com. Quadri A, Olaleye
ii. Com. Musa Lawal M. Ozigi, mni
iii. Com. Musa M. Abbas
iv. Com. Nuhu Toro
3. Following the threat by
Organized Labour not to guarantee industrial peace after Wednesday, October 16,
2019, as a result of the deadlock in the ongoing negotiation on the
Consequential Adjustment of emoluments in Federal Government Ministries,
Departments and Agencies (MDAs) arising from the New National Minimum Wage of
Thirty Thousand Naira (N30, 000.00) as imbued in the National Minimum Wage Act,
2019, the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment in exercise of his
powers under the Trade Dispute Act, CAP T8, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria
(LFN) 2004, apprehended the trade dispute and called the parties to
conciliation meetings. He met each of the JNPSNC separately on Wednesday, 9th
October and Monday 15th October, 2019, Thereafter, joint meetings were held on
16th, 17th and 18th of October, 2019, after which the following Terms of
Settlement and Agreement pertaining to the Minimum Wage Consequential
Adjustments in the Public Service were reached:
THE CONSEQUENTIAL
ADJUSTMENTS/INCREASE
Group 1 (CONPSS)
• GL 07 = 23.2%
• GL 08 = 20%
• GL 09 = 19%
• GL 10 – 14 = 16%
• GL 15¬- 17 = 14%
Group 2 (CONHESS, CONRAISS,
CONTISS II, CONUASS II, CONMESS. CONTEDISS & CONPCASS)
• GL 7/Equivalent = 23.2%
• GL 8-14/Equivalent = 16%
• GL 15-17/Equivalent = 10.5%
JOINT NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE
NEGOTIATING COUNCIL
GOVERNMENT SIDE
Dr, Folasade Yemi- Esan, Ag. Head
of the Civil Service of the Federation
Mr, Olusegun Olufehinti, (FCA),
Director IPPIS, OAGF, (Fed. Ministry of Finance, Budget & National
Planning)
LABOUR SIDE
Comrade Simon Anchave, Chairman
JNPSNC
Comrade Lawal A. Bashir,
Secretary General JNPSNC
WITNESSES
William Nwankwo Alo, Permanent
Secretary, Federal Ministry of Labour & Employment
Comrade Ayuba Wabba, mni, NLC
President
Sir Olusegun Adeyemi Adekunle,
Permanent Secretary, GSO
Com. Quadri A. Olaleye , TUC President
CONCILIATORS
Festus Keyamo, SAN
Hon. Minister of State of
Labour& Employment
Sen. (Dr) Chris Nwabueze Ngige,
OON
Honourable Minister of Labour
& Employment
Dated in Abuja, today 18th Day of
October, 2019
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