FG TO ENFORCE “NO WORK NO PAY’’ DOCTRINE IN PUBLIC SERVICE
FG TO ENFORCE “NO WORK NO PAY’’ DOCTRINE IN PUBLIC SERVICE
The Minister of Labour and
Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, made this known on Wednesday at the end of the
Federal Executive Council’s meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The Federal Government has resolved
to enforce the “No Work No Pay’’ doctrine as part of measures to restore
harmony into the public service in the country.
The Minister of Labour and
Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, made this known on Wednesday at the end of the
Federal Executive Council’s meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He stated that the council’s decision
to strictly observe and implement the doctrine followed the council’s
acceptance of the recommendation of the report of the Technical Committee on
Industrial Relation matters in the federal public service.
The committee which was chaired and
co-chaired by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Head of
Service, was inaugurated on April 26, 2016.
“The report emphasises the need for
government to implement the law on “No Work No Pay’’.
“The “No work No Pay’’ is not a rule
neither is it a policy. It is a law captured in the Trade Dispute Act of the
Federation, section 43, which says workers have the right to disengage their
service from an employer if there is a breakdown in their
discussion/negotiation.
“But, for the periods that the worker
does so, the employer should not pay and those periods are to be counted as
non-pensionable times in his period of work.
“So, Council today re-emphasised that
law is still and it should be brought to the knowledge of workers in Nigeria
especially those in the public sector,” he said.
Also addressing the correspondents on
the outcome of the council’s meeting, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac
Adewole announced that the federal government would soon ban private practice
by its medical personnel including doctors nationwide.
According to the minister, the law
does not allow any public officer to do anything other than farming. He said
already a committee had been set up to advice government appropriately on the
matter
The minister revealed that the
Council also looked at the issue of residency training programme and decided
that the training should last for a fixed time of seven years.
According to him, after the seven
years training period, individuals should exit from the programme so that other
people can come into it.
“In addition council also considered
an important memo on industrial relations particularly in the public sector,
that report dealt extensively with several issues but for us the health sector
the most important is the need to do comprehensive job evaluation.
“So, government has decided to set up
a committee that would evaluate what exactly do we do as individuals, how much
should we be paid in a way that we can really pay appropriately across board
through the entire country.
“Council also looked at the issue of
residency training programme and decided that the training should last for a
fixed time of 7 years after training for 7 years individuals should exit from
the programme so that other people can come into the programme.
“Council has also decided to look
into the issue of private practice by medical doctors in the public sector and
a committee has been set up to look extensively into that issue because we want
to resolve the issue of what does the law of the land state and what the rule
of professional ethics say,’’ he said.
Adewole announced that the federal
government would embark on a nationwide vaccination against yellow fever
following the reported outbreak of the disease in some part of the country.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
recalled that Yellow fever outbreak was recently reported in Kwara, Kogi,
Plateau, Abia and Edo States.