Mr Joseph Anchor, The Nasarawa State Head of Service (HoS), has announced the State Government’ s plan to reverse it’s decision to cut salaries of the state civil servants by 35 per cent.
The HoS said that the decision for reversal was taken following a successful meeting with the organised labour in Lafia, on Wednesday. Adding that the reversal was in the interest of industrial peace and harmony in the state.
“As you can see, we are just coming out of a meeting with the organised labour based on the issue of the 35 per cent cut in workers’ salaries as contribution to the development of the state.
We all agreed to continue the negotiations until a lasting solution is found. However, we have all resolved that government, for now, should suspend further action on the issue at stake,“
Anchor urge workers in the state to resume work and that they will receive their normal salaries while negotiation continues.
The State Chairman of the Nigerian Negotiating Council arm of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Sule Odeh,
affirmed the council’s agreement to the reversal and called on workers to resume work.
“On behalf of the state NLC, having heard from the government to revert its earlier decision on the 35 per cent salary cut, I hereby direct that the 48-hour ultimatum be suspended.
Workers should continue with their normal duties as the decision by the State Government to suspend its action will now pave way for continued negotiation,“ he said.
The state chapter of the NLC had , on May 16, gave the state government a 48-hour ultimatum to reverse its decision to cut workers salaries by 35 per cent or face an industrial action. The ultimatum issued by Abdullahi Adeka, the state Chairman of the NLC was the outcome of an executive meeting of the union.
