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FG Reached Final Agreement with Labour, Adjusts Military Personnel Salaries

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Oct 19, 2019.

The Federal Government has said the government has settled all disputes with the Nigerian Labour Congress NLC regarding salary adjustment arising from the new minimum wage.
The Federal Government also revealed that security personnel salaries were also adjusted, adding that the adjustment would be communicated to them through the appropriate channels.
The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige, revealed this while addressing journalists in Abuja.
He noted that the salary adjustments would take immediate effect.
He said “That the agreement reached with organised labour on consequential adjustment of salaries for workers. Ngige said that because the security personnel are not members of the civil service, their adjustments would be communicated to them through the appropriate channels.
“It is my pleasure to report to you that the various conciliatory meetings that we instituted since the ninth, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and today (yesterday) had yielded the desired fruit.
“This morning we concluded all our negotiations and produced a Memorandum of Terms of Settlement from the conciliation.
“The terms of settlement is in relation to the consequential adjustment of other wages following the new national minimum wage of N30, 000 as enshrined in the national minimum wage Act 2019.
Ngige noted that the deal was signed along side the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo.
He said “For these meetings, I acted as chief conciliator ably assisted by my Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo.”
“Today, we have put an end to all the negotiations, we deliberated and we have arrived at an agreement. “ he added.
“The consequential adjustments/ increases agreed upon for now are as follows.
We have the group one personnel or what we call Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS). The meeting agreed, having reviewed the increase in the lowest paid person in this wage structure at N30, 000 from Grade Level one Step one that the grade level 07 officers should move up by 23.2 percent in their wages,” Ngige said