The Trade Union Congress, TUC,
under the umbrella of Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council has
charged the Federal Government to pay five months arrears of the new minimum
wage when the payment commences.
TUC said the payment should be
backdated to April 18 when President Muhammadu Buhari signed the new minimum
wage bill into law.
The new demand was contained in a
statement signed by the acting Chairman of the union, Anchaver Simon, and
Secretary, Alade Lawal.
It also urged the government to
keep to its promise of carrying out a general review of wages of public
servants in the country.
“We wish to advise that since the
2019 National Minimum Wage was signed into Law by Mr President on April 18,
2019, the implementation should start from that date so as not to trigger
another avoidable round of agitation by public service employees and their
trade unions,” he said.
He said the union was glad that
the government took note of the need for a general salary review in the public
service.
The
federal government and the labour unions finally sorted out the issues of
consequential adjustment for other categories of workers after three days of
meeting which ended early today.
Under the agreement reached, the
core civil servants on grade level 7 are to get (23.2 per cent) adjustment;
grade level 8 (20 per cent); grade level 9 (19 per cent); grade levels 10 to14
(16 per cent); and grade levels 15 to 17, (14 per cent).
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