the fallout of last night parley between
The seeming industrial
dispute between the governor of Osun, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, and the organised
labour in the sta
find te may have been resolved following his readiness to pay four
months out of the salary arrears owed civil servants and pensioners in the year
2015, Nigerian Tribune authoritatively gathered.
This latest development
was the fallout of last night parley between the state government team, led by
the newly appointed Chief of Staff (CoS) to Aregbesola, Mr Rasaq Salinsile and
Osun State
house Commissioner for Finance, Mr Bola Oyebamiji, with the labour unions.
Credible sources, who were at the peace parley informed our correspondent that
the state government had resolved to pay the salary of civil servants for
September, October, November and December 2015, including the leave bonus of
2016 to all workers and pensioners, being owed pension allowances for the aforementioned
months.
The labour delegation to
the peace parley was led by the chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC)
in Osun, Comrade Jacob Adekomi, his counterpart in the Trade Union Congress
(TUC), Comra
business de Adebowale Adekola and other labour leaders, just as the chairman
of the Osun State Revenue Appropriation Committee, Comrade Hassan Sunmonu was
also in attendance during the meeting.
Speaking shortly after
the end of the meeting with our correspondent in Osogbo, on Monday night, NLC
chairman, Comrade Adekomi said: “We agreed at the meeting that they should pay
September, October, November and December salary arrears and pension in 2015.
They should also pay 2016 leave bonus arrears for all the workers.
According to him: “We
also agree that they should pay the full salary of August to all the workers.
We just finished the meeting. The salary arrears and pension for the four
months in 2015 would be paid from the available fund and any other money
government receives subsequently would also be used to pay workers the
remaining months they are owing us.
“We agreed with the
terms. We started the negotiation about three days ago. The payment for the
four months, 2016 leave bonus and August salary are what can be sourced from
the presently available resources. They informed us that the N16.7 billion
Paris fund approved by the Federal Government for Osun has not been paid into
the account of Osun State. Yesterday, they called them in Abuja. They assured
us that by Wednesday, workers would be receiving bank alerts for their salaries
as captured in the four months I mentioned,” Adekomi disclosed.
On whether they would
shelve their plan to embark on industrial action after the expiration of 7-day
notice ahead of warning strike, he said “we are not embarking on strike again,”
adding that the government assured us that they were working on the remittance
of pension deductions of workers.
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