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BREAKING: Aviation workers suspended planned strike, sign agreement with FG

The planned nationwide industrial action of all the unions in the aviation industry, billed to begin today, February 8, 2022, has been suspended.

This is sequel to a Memorandum of Settlement,MOS reached between the aviation workers and the Federal Ministry of Aviation in the early hours of today, February 8.

 

The agreement at the end of a conciliation meeting presided over by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, which discussed the two demands of the unions, namely, the non-implementation of the Minimum Wage consequential adjustment in the Aviation Parastatals since 2019 and the non-approval and release of the reviewed conditions of service in the parastatals.

 

The meeting agreed among other things that the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission is to issue a service wide circular informing all organisations in the public and private sectors that they are bound to implement the National Minimum Wage of 2019 and consequential adjustments.

 

The meeting agreed also that the Ministry of Aviation is to circulate the circular on the consequential adjustment on minimum wage to all the agencies under the supervision of the ministry, requesting them to implement without any further delay and also clarify that the payment become effective from April 18, 2019, when the Minimum Wage was signed into law.

 

The meeting however 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 organised labour on the consequential adjustment of the other wages, would attract consequential adjustment as agreed during the negotiations of the Federal Government with the labour centres-The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria in October 2019.

 

Regarding the non-approval and release of the reviewed conditions of service of the agencies under the Aviation Ministry, the meeting.

Noted that the issue was a protracted one, having been ongoing for about nine years, and therefore charged the management to take more proactive steps to conclude the review of the conditions of service to boost the morale of the workers and retain the best technical staff in the industry.

The NSIWC informed the meeting that the financial implication of the conditions of service 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 on a sectoral level.

The meeting equally noted that the Condition of service for the 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 by Friday, February 11, 2022 and copy the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment.

The meeting agreed that by the end of the first quarter of 2022, March 31, 2022, the Aviation Ministry should ensure the approval, release and implementation of the renewed Condition of service for all the workers in the agencies under the Aviation Ministry.

Present at the meeting are the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, the Permanent Secretaried, Federal Ministry of Labour, Yerima Tarfa and Aviation Abel Olumuyiwa Enitan, the Chairman of National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Ekpo Nta and the representatives of all the Aviation parastatals and executives of the five unions in Aviation industry

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