The Federal Government is expected to begin paying out the anticipated pay increase for civil servants by the end of this month (April), according to The PUNCH.
Any moment now, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, ret., the President, is expected to give his final approval for the disbursement.
If the proposal is approved, the increase will occur approximately two months prior to the June date that was proposed for the elimination of the gasoline subsidy.
The Federal Government stated exclusively to The PUNCH that the new pay increase, known as consequential allowance, would result in a 40% increase in government employees’ current compensation.
Olajide Oshundun, Director of Press and Public Relations at the Ministry of Labor and Employment, exclusively told The PUNCH that the Federal Government might begin paying the 40% pay raise by the end of April this year. He also said that the three months’ worth of unpaid wages from January, February, and March would be paid later.
Oshundun, be that as it may, said he was unable to affirm assuming the proposition by the public authority advisory group burdened with the errand had been at last endorsed by the President.
He said, “Weighty recompense Compensations will be expanded by 40% for government employees from level 1 to even out 17.
“What we get now is called merged public help pay structure, it is the blend of fundamental and all remittances. Therefore, the increase will be 40% of what a public servant currently earns.
“The arrears from January, February, and March will be paid later, and they will begin paying at the end of this month (April). The pay raise takes effect in January 2023. That is the proposition presented by the council put in a position to investigate compensation change for government employees, however am don’t know whether the President has marked it yet.”
Chris Ngige, Minister of Labor and Employment, made the announcement a month ago that the country’s federal government had approved a pay increase for civil servants.
He went on to say that the pay raise had been included in the budget for 2023 and that it would begin on January 1, 2023.
In light of the current economic situation, Ngige described the pay increase as a unique allowance for civil servants. It is intended to assist government employees in mitigating the effects of rising inflation, rising costs of living, and increases in transportation, housing, and electricity rates.
According to The PUNCH, Nigeria’s headline inflation reached the highest level since September 2005 in March, rising to 22.04 percent year-over-year.
As per the Public Department of Measurements information, the most recent ascent in expansion rate is the third successive increment this year, expanding by 0.13 percent focuses when contrasted with the February 2023 title expansion rate.
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The NBS added that the expense of food and refreshments contributed essentially to in general expansion.
Food and non-alcoholic beverages account for 11.42 percent of divisional items’ contributions to the headline index’s rise. housing, electricity, gas, and other fuels, as well as water footwear and apparel (1.69 percent); transportation (1.43%); goods, family hardware and upkeep (1.11 percent); educational attainment (0.87%); well-being (0.66%); goods and services of all kinds (0.37%); hotel and restaurant (0.27 percent); kola, tobacco, and alcoholic beverages (0.24%); The NBS report added that recreation, culture, and communication made up 0.15 percent and 0.15 percent, respectively.
In any case, heads of the coordinated work on Monday depicted the proposed pay ascend as a small remittance that wouldn’t be identical to a 40 percent increment in specialists’ compensations.
Responding in a phone interview, the Public VP of the Worker’s guild Congress, Tommy Etim, affirmed the moves by the public authority to increment “remittances and not pay rates” as freely implied.
He claims that the peculiar circumstances surrounding the elimination of the fuel subsidy and inflation have led to an increase in the allowance. However, he emphasized that the payment had not yet been made to civil servants.
He stated, “I am aware of the government’s actions, and the payment will begin in January.” The new installment isn’t an expansion in specialists’ pay rates. It is an unconventional stipend and not a pay raise, so we don’t deceive the general population. It is only a general increase to the basic salary. Different parts are not contacted so the market lady won’t think the public authority has expanded compensation. It is a recompense as a result of the impossible to miss conditions encompassing the expulsion of fuel endowment and expansion. A salary is not an allowance. I cannot speak authoritatively until it reaches everyone’s bank account because no civil servant has received it.
Etim, who is likewise the leader of the Relationship of Senior Government workers of Nigeria, further charged the public authority to consider addition of different remittances like lease and transportation
“We would likewise appreciate it assuming that different stipends are investigated, particularly lodging and transport. Some civil servants spend their entire salary on transportation, in addition to paying rent and other expenses, because of the current socioeconomic indices. Because of its significance, the government ought to take that into consideration as well,” he added.
Notwithstanding, the Nigerian Work Congress denied information on the proposed increase noticing that “We are just hearing it as reports.”
The Public Financier, NLC, Hakeem Ambali, said the association still couldn’t seem to be engaged with any type of conversation concerning the issue.
He stated, “For us, we are only hear it as rumours because there are procedures for collective bargaining to negotiate fringe benefits and workers’ entitlement.” A three sided thing would need to be arranged. However, based on what we see, it still appears to be a rumor. We are still waiting for the Federal Government to invite the necessary labor union to negotiate with us, and we would agree.
“Workers would not accept any increase that is not based on the data that is available and empirical. In order to draw a logical conclusion, we need to sit down and examine the economic and inflationary trends. So the initial step is to return to the arranging table.”
He simply responded, “We would continue in our push, even in our acceptance speech we made it clear that labor will negotiate with the Federal Government on minimum wage increment, so any allowance that does not take cognizance of the economic reality of the day is not acceptable to labor,” when asked about the union’s next action if the government implemented the proposed plan.