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BREAKING: Ekiti Govt Suspends Minimum Wage
- The Ekiti State Government has announced the suspension of minimum wage.
The Ekiti State Government has suspended the Consequential Salary Adjustment (minimum wage), EKO HOT BLOG has gathered.
The state government also announced the reduction of salaries of civil servants and political appointees.
The latest development was part of an agreement reached in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the government and organised labour, on Friday.
The minimum wage, which was being enjoyed by workers on grade levels 07 to 12 since January 2021, has now been partially suspended for a period of three months in the state.
It was gathered that workers on grade levels 01 and 06 will not be affected by the latest cut as their N30,000 minimum wage still stands.
According to Vanguard, labour unions in the state had last December, threatened to shut down activities of the state government if Governor Kayode Fayemi failed to implement the N30,000 minimum wage and the consequential adjustment to workers across board.
Also, in March, activities at the Ekiti State House of Assembly were paralysed for over three hours, following a peaceful protest by workers in the state over the contentious minimum wage.
Representing the government at the meeting on Friday were Head of Service, Mrs Peju Babafemi; the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Labour Matters, Oluyemi Esan, and the Permanent Secretary, Office of Establishment and Service Matters, Mr Bayo Opeyemi.
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The Chairmen, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Kolapo Olatunde; his counterpart in the Trade Union Congress (TUC), Sola Adigun; and that of the Joint Negotiating Council, Kayode Fatomiluyi; as well as their Secretaries, signed on behalf of the labour centres.
Contained in the agreement, read by the TUC Chairman, Sola Adigun, was the suspension of the consequential adjustment for certain categories of workers for a period of three months — May to July.
It was agreed that the salaries of political appointees be slashed by 25 per cent for a period of three months.
The pact also included that the release of the running grant for the running of government office be reduced, while a monthly meeting of the Economic Review Committee was mandated to convene five days after the meeting of the Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) to keep the workers abreast of the state’s financial position.
It further stated that 10 per cent of internally generated revenue, being the state responsibility to JAAC, would be released to the local governments henceforth.
The government, however, assured that it won’t downsize or retrench any worker as a result of the present economic crunch hitting the state.
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