Workers under the auspices of Federal Workers Forum (FWF)
have declared that their salaries are no longer sustainable with the rising
high cost of living and inflation.
The Forum made this declaration via a letter addressed to
the Head of Service of the federation.
The concerned workers in the letter entitled “NEED FOR YOUR
INTERVENTIONS CONCERNING THE PLIGHT OF FEDERAL WORKERS IN NIGERIA, PAY COST OF
LIVING ALLOWANCE (COLA)” and addressed to the HOS, explained that it has been
extremely difficult for them to make ends meet.
In the letter signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade
Andrew Emelieze, they also appealed to the HOS to look into the non-payment of
outstanding promotion arrears of workers and their DTA.
Emelieze, in the letter made available on Wednesday, added
that it was painful to note that workers have been going for promotion
interviews but DTA is not paid to them.
“We write to bring to your attention some of the challenges
confronting us as a working people. Foremost, with a fixed wage, our salaries
has been eroded with the rising high cost of living and inflation that we are
experiencing in Nigeria. It has been extremely very difficult for us to make
ends meet and as such workers have gone borrowing.
“Ma, unfortunately, we noticed that some of our colleagues’
salaries have been stopped as a result of over borrowing. We are appealing to
you to help intervene and temper justice with mercy and help reinstate the
salaries of the affected officers in order to prevent a double jeopardy. We are
also appealing that you help us look into the non-payment of outstanding
promotion arrears of workers and their DTA.
“It is also painful to note that workers have been going for
promotion interviews and DTA is not paid to them. Of late, most of the workers
that did the directorate cadre exams were not paid a single Kobo, despite
traveling to Abuja twice for accreditation, examinations and stayed weeks in
Abuja.
“We appeal that, in the face of the economic realities on
ground in Nigeria, that you consider a cost of living allowance to be paid to
the federal government workers. Our humble suggestion is that we have a 30% of
our salaries paid monthly as a monthly cost of living allowance (COLA). We the
workers are sending you this proposal and we know that you will agree with us
that this is a just proposal.
“We believe strongly that if you achieve this existential
request of a cost of living allowance for federal workers, perhaps it will help
swing other employers of labour to doing the same to their workforce, thus
helping to reduce the general hardship Nigerian workers are going through,” he
wrote.
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