Stung by the passage of the N18,000 minimum wage bill by the National Assembly and recent threat by the Nigeria Labour Congress for its immediate implementation, the Federal Government has decided to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of all public servants working in ministries, departments and agencies.
The Executive Chairman, National Salaries, Incomes, and Wages Commission, (NSIWC), Dr Richard Egbule said this in Abuja yesterday. It was at the closing ceremony of a workshop on productivity measurement and improvement scheme in the public service.
Other reasons for the new government initiative is to determine the relationship between a fair day’s work and a fair day’s pay. This is to entrench into the public sector the culture of productivity improvement and performance management as well as helping institutions to keep appropriate rewards on annual basis for effective planning and policy formulation.
He lamented that while government has “continued to cater for the welfare of workers through improved salaries and allowances, there has not been any mechanism put in place to determine the impact of these wage increases on workers’ productivity or to work out machinery in which this could translate into higher productivity.
Labour and Productivity Minister Chief Emeka Wogu, yesterday explained the delay in the implementation of the N18,000 National Minimum Wage Bill.
He attributed it to administrative processes at various levels of governance.
In a statement signed by the Ministry’s Assistant Director of Press Olowokere Samuel, Wogu said the delay was in the interest of workers.
He, however, dispelled all speculations trailing the new National Minimum Wage Bill, saying that President Goodluck Jonathan is committed to its implementation.
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