To avert the impending strike by National Assembly workers, the Clerk to the National Assembly, Olatunde Ojo, has constituted a nine-member committee to fashion out modalities for the implementation of the national minimum wage and other demands of the parliamentary workers.
This is coming on the heels of a 21-day ultimatum issued by the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, who threatened to embark on strike if their demands were not met.
They demanded among others, the immediate implementation of the national minimum wage and payment of other allowances.
The Special Adviser to the Clerk on Media and Labour Matters, Austen Adesoro, in a statement on Sunday, while inaugurating the panel, the Clerk said the management would continue to make workers’ condition of service and welfare a matter of priority.
Ojo explained that the nine-member panel, chaired by the Secretary, Human Resources and Staff Development, Felix Orunwese, was set up in order to attend to issues of welfare raised by the workers.
The statement quoted the Clerk have said that the National Assembly management would do all within its powers to ensure that the staff got due on a proactive basis.
He stressed the need for dialogue as a panacea for the situation instead of unnecessary demonstrations.
