Employees of the Parliament Staff Association of Nigeria have threatened to go on strike on January 10, 2022, if the National Assembly management does not pay their allowance arrears.
The employees in the National Assembly conducted a peaceful protest on Thursday to press their demands, which included the payment of an outstanding eight-month national minimum wage as well as 15 months of CONPECULIAR allowances.
Workers headed by the Chairman of PASAN National Assembly, Sunday Sabiyi, and Vice Chairman of National Assembly Service Commission, M. A Liman, requested complete implementation of the national minimum wage in a communiqué published following the combined NASS/NASC congress held in Abuja on Thursday.
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In 2019, a new pay was put into law, as well as a revised condition of service.
Breach of the MOU entered with PASAN on the 13th of April, 2021 on the full implementation of the new national minimum wage Act 2019.
The Congress hereby observes the breach of MOU by the decision of the management not to honour it as at 31st December 2021, is the fourth quarter of 2021, the workers wrote in the two-page communiqué.
In light of the aforementioned violations, the NASC/NASS joint emergency congress resolves as follows: Management should pay the National Assembly staff 5 months of outstanding minimum wage, the year 2021 rent subsidy, 15 months of CONPECULIAR allowances, and six months of hazard allowance with immediate effect.
“In addition to the MOU, Congress also wants the implementation of a 50% CONLESS balance, the prompt availability of a training template for personnel for the year 2022, and proof of gratuity provision for retiring staff.”
“Whereas management had previously listed the supplemental budget for 2021 as one of several sources of funding for the MOU, Congress is astounded that the Supplementary budget and virement of the fiscal appropriation for 2021 had suddenly become the source of funding items not captured in the MOU including end of year bonus and promotion arrears.”
