FG pleads with Aviation workers to suspend planned strike
The planned nationwide industrial action by associations and unions in the aviation industry was suspended on Tuesday morning February 8, following the signing of a fresh Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) with the federal government.
The MoS was signed at a meeting held at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Employment. The meeting started at about 6pm on Monday and ended on Tuesday Morning.
Some of the issues discussed include non-implementation of the Minimum Wage consequential adjustment in the Aviation Parastatals since 2019 and the non-approval/release of the reviewed conditions of service in the parastatal
The Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, said after exhaustive deliberations on the issues which the parties agreed as germane.
Daily Trust reported that Ngige said that those who had exited the system during the period from April 18, 2019, to date, would also be paid the arrears.
“The meeting noted that some categories of workers in the Aviation Sector attract some peculiar allowances, which are not extended to others and stated that those salary structures that are not captured in the Memorandum of Terms of Settlement signed and dated 9th, 14th, 15th 16th, 17th and 18th October, 2019 between the Federal Government and organized labor on the consequential adjustment of the other wages, would attract consequential adjustment as agreed during the negotiations of the Federal Government with the labor centers-The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria in October 2019." “The meeting was informed that the financial implication of the conditions of service (CoS) for Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) has been approved by the Presidential Committee on Salaries (PCS), hence the whole process for NIMET has been concluded except for hazard allowances, which would be reconsidered by the NSIWC on a sectoral level. Hence, the NSIWC is to release this approved CoS immediately.“The meeting however noted that the CoS for Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) require establishment input and directed the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation to update the Ministry of Aviation on this aspect of their CoS by Friday, February 11, 2022 and copy the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.“The meeting agreed that the financial aspect of NAMA and NCAA would be resolved by the PCS by the third week of February 2022.“The meeting was also informed that the CoS for Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has been released since 2019.
SOURCE : DAILY TRUST
