Ekiti Civil Servants To Receive N19,332 Monthly

Civil servants in Ekiti State are to receive N19,332 as the approved new minimum wage by the state government.

The state government had approved the new wage for workers on grade level 7 to 17 from April 2012.

The payment of the new wage is commencing four months after the state government announced a N19,332 minimum wage for workers (the amount is N1,332 higher than the N18,000 minimum wage passed into law by the national assembly).

Since December 2011 the state government under Governor Kayode Fayemi had commenced the payment of the new minimum wage to workers on grade level 1to 6 in the state.

In a statement, by the chairman, Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, Comrade Babatunde Ajayi, expressed the workers happiness over the state government gesture.

He said the gesture was the manifestation of the government’s commitment to the welfare of its workers, stressing that the new wage and the social security scheme of the government will make life easier for the workers and people of the state.

The statement further said “Ekiti has now become one of the few states in the federation to implement the new minimum wage for workers in its employ in line with the national minimum wage considering the fact that Ekiti is at the rung of the federal allocation ladder”.

The Joint Public service Negotiating Council’s boss added that some states that received higher revenue allocation from the federal allocation were yet to implement the new wage, but Ekiti government gesture is an indication of its interest in the welfare of its workers, he said.

The state government had also announced that pensioners in the state will also get 15 per cent rise in their monthly pension.