- GL 1 to 6 N32,000? It’s less than the FG’s N30,000 minimum wage
- GL 7 and above consequential adjustment? While some grades level staff receive additional N5,000, N9,000, N1,500 uniformly, respectively, some other workers lament salary reduction; as consequential hazard
- Will the implementation attract payment of arrears from 2019 when workers with the state government started enjoying?
- Governor Fintiri’s 2019 promise was that civil servants’ welfare would be among his prominent priorities…?
The local government employees, primary healthcare and primary school teachers in Adamawa state have eventually acknowledged that there are changes in their January 2023 salaries, said to be as a result of the implementation of either the state government’s N32,000 or the federal government’s N30,000 minimum wage.
The implementation as the political pundits have observed, in addition to some challenges, is effected just at a period less than a month to the 2023 general election.
According to them “this can best be described as salary campaign propaganda, as much as the last minute employment the Fintiri led government is carrying out, the same way of the former governor Bindow’s tragic flaws.
“Electorates are no longer guilty of naivete to be charged as prisoners of gullibility; we’re fortified against defective memory to celebrate rather than lament implementation of the so-called minimum wage that is entirely dissimilar to that enjoyed by the workers with the federal government.
“A senior staff with the local government authority lamented that junior staff are those that benefit from the state government’s minimum wage unlike what is obtained with the federal government salaries.
“In Adamawa state, in the name of consequential adjustment, said to be negotiated by the union leaders, the higher one’s grade level is, the less the increment of his salary. Suffices to say that from grade level 7 and above, the uniform increment is from N10,000 going to amount less than N2,000 has been the lament.
“Among the workers, there are some who lamented a gross reduction in their January salaries as affected by the consequential adjustment in the face of the corrosive economy”.
Some of the beneficiaries, especially the junior workers sought to know whether or not they would enjoy the arrears dated back to 2019.
The Periscope Global tried to get the side of the government’s story, the Director-General, Media and Publicity to the Governor and Permanent Secretary, Mr Solomon Kumangar’s line was not through. Kumangar however said he would find out while responding to the following text message some hours ago.
“Good morning Mr Solomon!
A good development with minimum wage implementation affecting staff with the LG, primary schools and primary healthcare.
However, there are lamentations that some workers’ salaries were slashed rather than increased. Is the government aware of it? Can it be addressed? Is there the consideration of arrears with effect from 2019?”