We Will Close Shops in The Next Few Days Unless LGs Implement Salary Relativity – NULGE

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The state president of Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Comrade Tom Abutu, told journalists in Lokoja that they would close shops in the next few days unless the heads of local government administration in the state implement the salary relativity.

While state workers are enjoying salary relativity, local government workers are yet to feel its effect. They have threatened to down tools if council chairmen failed to implement the package for them.

At the state level, the state government is yet to commence the payment of the new national minimum wage. However, the government recently implemented relativity package for the workers which enabled them to receive higher wages, where the take- home pay of the least civil servant  in the state is N14,100.

The government has also reviewed the deductions from workers salaries upward   following the implementation of the relativity package.

Determined to implement the new wage, the state government has set up a 17-man standing committee to work out modalities for the payment of the minimum wage.

The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Hon. Musa Ahmadu,who is heading the committee, said the committee would  do a thorough job  that would not only lead to a lasting solution to the problem, but would forestall hitches as far as the implementation of the new wage was concerned.

He said his committee would advise the government on how to pay the new salary structure in line with the available resources.

Nine members of the committee were drawn from the organised labour, while the other members represent the state government. The civil servants in the state are eagerly waiting for the speedy completion of the committee’s assignment to enable them enjoy the new minimum wage.


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