The Taraba state chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC)
Monday urged the outgoing governor, Darius Ishaku, to pay the outstanding six months salaries of local government staff, and five months for primary school Teachers before handling over to the incoming administration.
The state NLC chairman, Comrade Peter Jediel, while speaking during this year’s 2023 May Day celebration lamented that the backlog of gratuities for retirees in the state from 2015 and the inability of the present administration to capture over 1000 retirees into the monthly pension was worrisome.
“We further implore the state government to hasten the implementation of the new minimum wage for workers in the state to boost their morale and enhance maximum productivity in the civil service.
‘Another area we also want government to focus attention is training, and retraining of civil servants in the state. This becomes imperative to enable them cope with current trends and developments in the civil service.” he said.
He appealed for the lifting of embargo and other restrictions including non-release of dues meant for the state wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT).
