The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Plateau State at the weekend alleged that retirees in the state are being coerced and short-changed in the computation of their retirement benefits.
State chairman of the union, Comrade Jubril Banchir, said the NLC was dismayed by what retirees are being subjected to by the state Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
Banchir said the ministry’s attitude is without recourse to an agreement signed by the organised labour on the implementation of the national minimum wage.
“It is on record that an agreement for the full implementation of the national minimum wage was signed on January 11, 2012 and it therefore means that any retiree that falls within the ambit of the time when the agreement was signed is entitled to 100 per cent retirement benefit and not the 55 per cent the ministry is compelling retirees to go home with,” he said.
He said the union observed that since January 2014, the state government had removed salary payments and wages from first line charge and that monthly salary is not being paid as at when due.
“Government is owing two to three months salaries and even when it is paid in arrears, the mode of its payment is discriminative,” he said.
Banchir said the ministry’s attitude is without recourse to an agreement signed by the organised labour on the implementation of the national minimum wage.
“It is on record that an agreement for the full implementation of the national minimum wage was signed on January 11, 2012 and it therefore means that any retiree that falls within the ambit of the time when the agreement was signed is entitled to 100 per cent retirement benefit and not the 55 per cent the ministry is compelling retirees to go home with,” he said.
He said the union observed that since January 2014, the state government had removed salary payments and wages from first line charge and that monthly salary is not being paid as at when due.
“Government is owing two to three months salaries and even when it is paid in arrears, the mode of its payment is discriminative,” he said.
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