Salary Adjustment For Military, Other Security Personnel- FG

The members of the armed forces and other security personnel’s are to benefit from the consequential adjustment of workers’ salaries as agreed by the federal government and Nigeria Labour Congress on Friday.

The minister of labour, Chris Ngige disclosed this to newsmen at the signing of the deal that the new structure would take immediate effect.

Ngige  on the agreement reached with organised labour on consequential adjustment of salaries for workers said that because the security personnel are not members of the civil service, their adjustments would be communicated to them through the appropriate channels.

The agreement was signed by the Acting Head of Service of the Federation,  Folashade Yemi- Esan and Minister of Labour and Employment,  Chris Ngige who signed  on behalf of the federal government while President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Ayuba Wabba and the Chairman Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council, Simon Anchaver (JNPSNC) signed for organised labour.

According to the minister of labour, the full implementation of the new national minimum wage law takes immediate effect. “It is my pleasure to report to you that the various conciliatory meetings that we instituted since the ninth, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and today (yesterday) had yielded the desired fruit.

“Today, we have put an end to all the negotiations, we deliberated and we have arrived at an agreement. “The consequential adjustments/ increases agreed upon for now are as follows.

We have the group one personnel or what we call Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure (CONPSS). The meeting agreed, having reviewed the increase in the lowest paid person in this wage structure at N30, 000 from Grade Level one Step one that the grade level 07 officers should move up by 23.2 percent in their wages”.