Wage arrears: SSANU, NASU participants will receive half of pay if… – Minister

Individuals of the Federal Authorities’s Senior Workers Affiliation of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Tutorial Workers Union (NASU) would receive half of of their withheld salaries if President Bola Tinubu approves the fee of their salary arrears.

Tahir Mamman, Minister of Education, acknowledged this on Channels Television’s Politics At the moment time on Wednesday.

In response to the Mamman, the non-tutorial workers participants of universities weren’t on strike for an identical length in 2022 as their tutorial colleagues.

He acknowledged the executive has been “doing everything that you simply would possibly maybe be ready to judge to receive a relief for them.”

When asked what has delayed the fee to NASU and SSANU participants, Mamman acknowledged, “No, it has no longer been well-liked.

“There would possibly maybe be a court judgement on no work, no pay. ASUU getting four months’ pay modified into genuinely a discretion and decision on the allotment of the President. So, it doesn’t routinely switch (to NASU and SSANU) however the topic is under consideration.”

“I don’t deem it is safe to assign a time on it but it’s safer to hiss that we’re on it and we’re pushing.

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“And finally, the non-tutorial workers, they weren’t on strike for an identical length with the educational workers — about four months or so. So, within the event that they’re getting fee, it would possibly maybe per chance maybe be half of of that (fee), if the President will follow his precedent with the educational workers.”

Speaking on the relate of discrimination by NASU and SSANU, the minister acknowledged, “That can no longer be compatible, there will not be one of these thing as a rating. These are other folks working within the same terrain, they’re doing a form of things but all working against the same goal.

“I agree with what took place modified into a communication thunder firstly, it wasn’t envisage to exclude them from that relieve.”

In March, SSANU and NASU participants launched into a one-week warning strike to thunder their withheld salaries by the Federal Authorities.

The two unions berated the Federal Authorities for paying withheld salaries to the Tutorial Workers Union of Universities (ASUU) while neglecting the non-tutorial unions.

The whole unions had launched into an eight-month strike in 2022 to press dwelling about a of their demands together with an even bigger welfare bundle.

The administration of then President Muhammadu Buhari attributable to this truth invoked a ‘No Work, No Pay coverage’ in opposition to the unions but President Bola Tinubu final October well-liked the beginning of four of the eight months withheld salaries.

SSANU and NASU accused the Federal Authorities of unfair cure and discrimination by failing to pay them esteem their tutorial counterparts.

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