National Assembly workers under the aegis of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) on Thursday threatened to shutdown all activities as from Monday, 6th June 2022 over non-payment of outstanding balance of National Minimum Wage.
The aggrieved workers at a meeting held within the complex in Abuja, specifically frowned at the refusal of National Assembly’s management to implement the Conditions of Service via a Memorandum of Understanding duly signed by both parties.
They said the PASAN Executive members while giving update on the meeting held with the management, disclosed that National Assembly’s management “insists that it shall not implement any allowances (including the Leave Grant already paid in the last two years) except they obtain approval or ratification from the National Salaries and Wages Commission.
“This position is absolutely in conflict with the functions of the National Assembly Commission, particularly Section 19 (1) of the Act establishing the Commission.
“The provisions of this Section expressly provides that the Commission shall among other things, make staff regulations relating generally to the conditions of service, including the power to fix salaries and allowances, of the staff of the National Assembly. Section 6(b) of the same Act also provides that ‘the Commission shall have power to pay its staff such remuneration as are approved by the National Assembly.
“In line with this provisions the National Assembly, approved the harmonized Consolidated Legislative Salary Structure (CONLESS) and Peculiar Allowances in 2010. And in 2018 the two Houses of the National Assembly also approved the Revised Conditions of Service 2018.”
They maintained that tthere is nowhere in the provisions of Section 3 (a) to (r) of the National Salaries and Wages Commission Act, where National Assembly Service Commission was subjected to get further approval from National Salaries and Wages Commission in terms of fixing salaries and wages.
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