According to the President of the Trade Union Congress, Enugu State chapter who also doubles as Chairman of the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, Mr. Chukwuma Igbokwe, told Punch newspaper that the adjusted salary scale should be implemented since it was captured in the 2015 budget.
"If we wait and they still refuse to implement it, we will go on an indefinite strike. It is not as if we are asking for salary increment. We met with the present governor and we said government is a continuum and you are talking of total continuity so give us our entitlements
"We are saying that people have been denied their allowances for over five years, when the minimum wage scale was prepared the adjustment did not recognise the increase in some allowances.
"You don't increase basic salary without increasing the percentage of the allowances. That is why we are saying the adjusted scale was not really an increase. It was even the government that corrected it and brought it to us and we agreed that it should implement it. The government agreed to pay and said it was the right thing. The government, however, said it was not in the budget then. Now that it is captured in the budget of 2015, the governor is saying that we should give him time" the TUC leader was quoted.
He however didn't give any indication of how long the workers were prepared to wait before embarking on the strike.
The report stated that the salary scale of the worker was reviewed during the administration of former governor Sullivan Chime after the workers demanded an increase and but refused to implement it on the grounds that there were no provisions for the new pay formula in the 2014 budget.
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