EBONYI GOVERNOR APPROVES N30, 000 NEW MINIMUM WAGE FOR WORKERS

Hear him, “In my presentation, I did make promise that our state shall not be the first and will shall not be last to pay the new national minimum wage. So I therefore approve the new minimum wage for our civil servants in the state.”

The Governor further said his administration placed high premium on workers’ welfare, adding “in my administration, all I have done in the last four years was to address your challenges and develop workable blueprint to address your problems and I am happy to say that within the years under review, a tremendous milestones have been achieved in terms of prioritizing your welfare’.

“Without boring you with the obvious, it has been my opinion that workers in this country are not yet at their best in terms of being taken care of, but with various programmes I initiated in my administration, I can beat my chest to say that we were not oblivious of these challenges staring you in the face but we have initiated measures to ameliorate your sufferings’.

“My administration has increased workers’ salaries by 5 percent in the face of the dwindling federal allocation to states with Ebonyi at the lowest ebb. Beyond the increment in workers’ salaries, we have given workers over N4b loan to go into agriculture to help them as no amount of wage increase can address the conflicting priorities of workers in this country’

Penpushing further reports that, earlier in his address, Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, Ebonyi State, Comrade Leo Nkah commended the Governor for approving necessary welfare allowances and appealed for speedy implementation of the New Pension Law act of 2014.

The labour leader said Civil servants in the state are mostly grateful to the governor for listening to their pleas and thanked him for the provision of N4b for civil servants to access to help them go into agriculture to sustain their living.