Osun State Government Begins Payment Of Outstanding Salaries – NLC

The Chairman of the Osun Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, Jacob Adekomi while addressing newsmen after a meeting with representatives of government on the disbursement of bailout loan for workers salary at the Government House in Osogbo, commended Governor Rauf

Aregbesola for disbursing the bailout loan for the payment of backlog of workers salaries.

Adekomi stated that there was no disagreement between Labour and government on whether the bailout loan will not be used to pay workers salaries as speculated in some quarters.

He stressed that, labour all this while was sure that the fund was intact but was meeting with government on the modalities of how it will be disbursed based on the Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, of 13th July, 2015 entered into with government by labour.

Speaking on the MoU between government and the committee inaugurated on disbursement of bailout loan, the NLC boss said the funds to be disbursed will cover the payment of outstanding salaries for the month of January to June.

According to him, “In order to ensure sustainability of payment of salaries in Osun State, the first disbursement from the bailout loan should cover the payment of outstanding September and December 2014 deductions, balance of January and February salaries and full payment of March, April and May 2015 salaries for government workers.”

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