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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Enrty | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article | Make as StartPage Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary REAL ESTATE Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Should the NLC embark on another strike to protest the fuel price hike? No Yes Indifferent View results Govt Reacts to Labour Threat 11.11.2004 Ekiti State government has reacted to threat by state Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), to down tools over non-payment of leave bonus and entitlements to workers. The NLC has in a notice signed by the State Chairman, Comrade Suyi Aribisala, gave 15 November  as the commencement of the strike unless the leave bonus for the 2004 is paid immediately. Speaking with reporters in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Idowu Adelusi, said the state government ought to have been commended by the workers over payment of arrears of salaries and allowances owed them by the last administration. He said Fayose's administration met unpaid arrears of leave bonus of year 2001, 2002 and that it has paid everything including that of year 2003. He wondered why the NLC was spoiling for a showdown over the  2004 leave bonus knowing that Fayose�s administration has done a lot to make workers  more comfortable within 17 months of its existence. Adelusi said despite the lean purse of the  state, workers are paid on 20th of every month, adding that when the  administration came on board, it met two months salary arrears unpaid, were paid before end of last year. He said the administration inherited backlog of unpaid gratuity and pensioner�s allowances, which has been paid pensioners paid  their monthly allowances regularly. He,  therefore, called on  labour to be grateful and  support the administration, instead of becoming confrontational over non-payment of leave bonus of a year yet to expire. He said government has accepted to pay a balance of N250 million leave bonus in five installments.  �However, we would not want labour to stampede  government into making promises that can not be fulfilled,� he said.       REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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