{"id":33709,"date":"2020-12-21T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33709"},"modified":"2020-12-21T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T17:04:22","slug":"labour-embarks-on-8-day-warning-strike-in-imo-over-accumulated-salary-arrears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-embarks-on-8-day-warning-strike-in-imo-over-accumulated-salary-arrears","title":{"rendered":"Labour embarks on 8-day warning strike in Imo over accumulated salary arrears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The organized labour in Imo State has ordered the commencement of eight-day warning strike in the State.<\/p>\n<p>The warning strike which begins today, Monday, December 21, 2020, according to a press release signed by the Labour\u2019s state Chairman and the Secretary, Austin Chilakpo and Ken Onwuemeodo, respectively, was to press home their demand on the issue of accumulated salary arrears, staggered payment and underpayment of salaries and pensions.<\/p>\n<p>The release further disclosed that other issues include the conclusion of negotiation and implementation of N30,000 minimum wage and return to payroll system of salaries and pensions through the office of the Accountant-General under the supervision of the Head of Service.<\/p>\n<p>It further reads, \u201cthe organized labour equally rejects the extension of service for retired Permanent Secretaries and non-remmittance of check-off dues to the industrial unions in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rest are stoppage in use of consultants for payment of salaries and pensions, the commencement of promotion exercise and implementation of 2014 promotion exercise in the parastatals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It urged all Imo workers to comply with the directive.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the state Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma on Sunday asked the workers to go home and guard themselves against the resurgence of Covid-19, leaving behind political appointees and Permanent Secretaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The organized labour in Imo State has ordered the commencement of eight-day warning strike in the State. The warning strike which begins today, Monday, December 21, 2020, according to a press release signed by the Labour\u2019s state Chairman and the Secretary, Austin Chilakpo and Ken Onwuemeodo, respectively, was to press home their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,1018,219,254],"class_list":["post-33709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-imo","tag-labour","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Labour embarks on 8-day warning strike in Imo over accumulated salary arrears - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/labour-embarks-on-8-day-warning-strike-in-imo-over-accumulated-salary-arrears\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Labour embarks on 8-day warning strike in Imo over accumulated salary arrears\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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