Ex- Labour leader and Edo State Governor, Adams Aliu Oshiomhole on Sunday 1st of May (workers day) announced the increment of the National Minimum Wage
from N18,000 to N25, 000 with immediate effect for employees in the
State Public Service.
Oshiomhole who made the announcement on
Sunday at the celebrations of activities to mark the 2016 Workers Day,
said plans had also been concluded to pay staff of Egor Local
Government Council who were being owned 13 months arrears of salary,
and salary arrears of staff Local Government Councils in the State within the next two weeks.
Explaining why the council was omitted
from the bailout to local government councils in 2015, he gave the
assurance that the Edo Government had been meeting with the Central Bank
of Nigeria and that within the next two weeks, the funds would be
released and staff of the council would be paid in full.
He also explained the reason behind the
non-appointment of Caretaker Committees for the 18 local government
councils in the state, after the end of the tenure of the immediate-past
local government chairmen.
According to him, “Rather than appoint
caretaker committees for the councils and pay them because they are
politicians, we directed the Heads of Personnel Management in the
councils to hold forth, so that those monies would be used to run the
councils and pay salaries,” he said.
He assured that he would not use his office to put hardship on any of his workers.
Earlier, the State Chairman of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Orhue Marshall, appealed to government to enlist workers in the state in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
According to him, this would enable them
to have access to quick and cheap medical facilities, like their
colleagues in the Federal Public Service.
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