The Federal Government is set to “fix salaries, wages” of civil servants, Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed.
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| Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige |
Ngige made this statement known to newsmen after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
On the fashionable frame of time for the salaries under review to be implemented, the Labour Minister said: “As we enter the new year government will make some pronouncements in that direction.
“The Presidential Committee on salaries is working hand-in-hand with the National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission. The commission is mandated by the Act establishing them to fix salaries, wages, and emoluments in not only the public service.
“If you want their assistance and you are in the private sector, they will also assist you. They have what is called the template for remuneration, for compensation. So if you work, you get compensated, if you don’t work, you will not be compensated.
“So they have the matrix to do the evaluation, so they are working with the Presidential Committee on Salaries Chaired by the finance ministry and I’m the co-chair to look at the demands of the workers. Outside this, I said discussions on that evaluation are going.”
