By Chris Ochayi
ABUJA: The Federal Government has inaugurated a 12-man committee to harmonize the salary structures of Federal public servants, with a view to reducing incurred by the government annually.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, while inaugurating the committee in Abuja, said government was already overburdened by the recurrent expenditure profile.
Senator Anyim Pius Anyim
The former Senate President regretted that the development has left meager resources for execution of capital projects.
The committee headed by Head of Service of the Federation, , HOSF, Sali Bello as chairman has the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Chairman, Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Productivity as members.
Others are Permanent Secretary/Solicitor-General, Ministry of Justice, Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Clerk of the National Assembly, Director, (Personnel Management) National Assembly, Director (Legal Services) NASS, Chief Registrar, Supreme Court of Nigeria, Secretary, National Judicial Council and Permanent Secretary, Economic Affairs, Office of the SGF as member/secretary of the committee.
According to Anyim, “Over the years, the Federal Government has been inundated with several requests for salary adjustments and reviews, the affected government agencies have justified their request for special salary grades on the basis of the peculiar nature of their work.
“While this development might have had some positive impacts on the well being of staff of the respective agencies, the incessant requests have given rise to divergent salary structures with very wide relativity gaps.”
The mandate of the committee as stated by the SGF will include an appraisal of previous reviews of the salary structures in the federal public service and assess their relevance in the country’s present circumstance.
They are also expected to examine the salary structures of the various sectors of the federal public service within the context of their respective job contents and determine the justification for the existing pay system on the basis of relativities.
To examine the possibility and modalities for the adoption of a harmonized pay and compensation policy for the entire federal public service that will ensure rational and equitable remuneration structure in the service and curb incessant agitation for upward review of wages and salaries.
Their mandate will also include examination of the cause of continuous quest for special salary scales in the public service and its attendant proliferation of salary structures and bloating of the national wage bill.
SOURCE: Vanguard Newspaper. 22 March 2012. http://www.vanguardngr.com/
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