May Day: FG announces salary increase for Civil Servants, includes Lectures and Doctors in the plan
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that it will soon increase the salaries of all civil servants, including lecturers and doctors.
Workers under the Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure, Consolidated Medical Salary Scale (CONMESS), CONHESS, and CONTISS salary scales are set to benefit from the increase.
Nigeria's Minister of Labour, Employment and Productivity, Chris Ngige, disclosed this during the celebration of International Workers' Day at Eagle Square, Abuja.
Ngige revealed that in addition to the salary increase, workers would receive arrears of the increase from January 2023. The National Salaries, Wages, and Income Commission is working towards finalising the increase.
According to Ngige, “It will also be recalled that since the emergence of the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure on the 1st of January, 2007, it has not been reviewed by any of the past administrations, but for the consequential minimum wage adjustment of 2019 for all wage structures under this government in 2019.”
The Minister explained that the Federal Government had worked out the introduction of a 40% Peculiar Allowance into the remuneration and emoluments of core Federal Civil Servants and other public servants on the CONPSS.
This was done to help cushion the effects of inflation and other costs of doing their work since they are not on any special allowances. Ngige stated that this demonstrated the government's commitment to improving workers' welfare and conditions of service without any industrial action but as a fallout of social dialogue.
However, other workers in different wage structures like CONHESS, CONMESS, CONUAS, and CONTISS that began their Collective Bargaining with their employer, even with Industrial action, are winding up their CBAs for the National Salaries Incomes and Wages to transmit the same for final treatment as provisions were made in the 2023 Appropriations for them with effect from 1st January 2023.
