Kogi workers issue 7-day ultimatum over 50% salaries

The organised labour in Kogi has given the state government a seven-day ultimatum over its decision to pay 50 per cent salary to workers and 40 percent to local government staff across the state, Vanguard reports.

Earlier

The organised labour in Kogi had September 1, rejected the state government’s offer of 50 percent salaries to civil servants in the state.

The labour union said its rejection of half salaries proposed by the state followed a meeting by the union and the government, which ended in a deadlock.

And now…

The workers, after a meeting presided over by the state Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Onuh Edoka, and his Trade Union Congress (TUC), counterpart, Ranti Ojo, restated their resolve to reject the half salary policy of government.

Edoka said, “If the N2.6 billion being quoted now by government as July wage bill is sacrosanct, and if the monthly allocation that accrued to the state from the federation account without the IGR shared in the month of August stands at N2.6 billion as presented to organised labour, we wish to ask why this percentage of salary?”

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