The Bayelsa State authorities has authorised the cost of N80,000 as minimal wage for employees of the native authorities council.
The approval got here after stress from the Nigeria Labour Congress and Commerce Union Congress.
The federal government additionally assured the employees that it will add to the December salaries the differentials that might come up from the continuing dialogue on the template utilized in paying the brand new minimal wage in November.
The Performing Governor, Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made this recognized at a gathering with the state minimal wage implementation committee and chairmen of the eight native authorities areas within the state, on the Authorities Home, on Tuesday.
The assembly had in attendance representatives of the NLC, TUC, Nigeria Union of Native Authorities Workers, Nigerian Union of Academics and Medical and Well being Staff’ Union of Nigeria, amongst others.
Ewhrudjakpo urged labour to give you their computation and harmonise the identical with the state staff to allow the cost of the differentials within the consequential adjustment alongside the December salaries.
He stated the choice to pay the brand new minimal wage to council staff was unanimously agreed upon by all of the essential stakeholders, together with the native authorities chairmen.
On the problem of the Federal Authorities round calling for the increment of pensioners’ remuneration, the performing governor stated the federal government had already authorised a N10,000 enhance for pensioners throughout the board.
He stated the state authorities couldn’t undertake the Federal Authorities’s template for the implementation of the brand new minimal wage to staff as a consequence of its monetary capability.
He assured civil servants of the federal government’s dedication to their welfare, including that Bayelsa was already paying a extra aggressive wage than most states within the South-South specifically and the nation at massive.
His phrases: “Firstly, we’ve agreed that the minimal wage for the native authorities staff also needs to be N80,000.
“Now the distinction is the consequential adjustment which we predict that we can not use the Federal Authorities’s consequential adjustment, as a result of the Federal Authorities’s charges are increased.
“Secondly, the Federal Authorities has methods and means, however each state and native governments wouldn’t have such powers.
“So, as we go for the consequential adjustment, we are going to take a look at what we will carry, and I want all of us to place the survival of Bayelsa State and our councils in the back of our minds as we negotiate.
“We should always not fail to know that the sources that come to the state or native authorities areas should not meant for these of us who’re politicians and civil servants alone.”
The performing governor stated politicians and civil servants incomes salaries within the state constituted about 15 per cent of the inhabitants.
“The vast majority of our individuals earn social companies corresponding to well being services, training, safety, roads, bridges and different facilities which are additionally being supplied from those self same sources. So, I actually need to enchantment to labour to indicate understanding,” he stated.
Talking on behalf of organised labour, the state NLC chairman, Simon Barnabas, thanked the federal government for approving the brand new minimal wage for staff within the state.
Barnabas, nonetheless, referred to as on the federal government to undertake the Federal Authorities’s template for the consequential adjustment in addition to approve N32,000 increment for pensioners as contained within the latest Federal Authorities round.