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    Strike averted as FG, JOHESU reach truce

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    The Federal Government and the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) have reached a truce in JOHESU’s planned strike action.

    The federal government reached the understanding with JOHESU on Tuesday, at the meeting of the Presidential Committee on Salaries (PCS) with the leadership of JOHESU and Assembly of Healthcare Professional (AHPA) on the review of Hazard Allowance in the health sector held at the office of Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment.

    JOHESU had earlier given the government 15 days to meet their demands or face strike. It had insisted that Nigerian be prepared for a major strike action in the health sector if the federal government failed to accede to their demands.

    Briefing journalists after the meeting which lasted about five hours, Ngige disclosed that they held fruitful discussions and assured that the Memorandum of Understanding would be signed next week .

    According to him, they discussed in a fraternal way and reached an understanding on all the issues in dispute, including the enhancement of hazard allowance, review of retirement age from 60 to 65 years, the arrears  of the consequential adjustment of the national minimum wage  and upward adjustment of Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) as done with Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS).

    The Minister disclosed that they had no problems with the old issues while the meeting agreed that the new issues should return to their employer, the Federal Ministry of Health for discussions.

    Ngige spoke on the hazard allowance and recalled that the Government held four meetings earlier with JOSEHU and NMA alongside their affiliates, but at a point there were areas of departure.

    He noted that NMA and a union earlier thought to be part of JOHESU, demanded for the compartmentalization of the discussions on the hazard allowance, which the Government granted.

    “Based on previous discussion, we delivered to them (JOHESU) the financial implication of what is due to them and they promised to get back to their members and report back to us. On the other hand, Government is meeting with NMA next week for their separate discussion on hazard allowance. Already the Federal Government has budgeted the sum of N37.5 B for this.

    “The issue was resolved to the satisfaction of all of us. Government is not delaying the hazard allowance as some people want the public to believe. Since the past six months, Government has been making concerted efforts to push the new hazard allowance into effect, which we are doing now but for disagreement between NMA and JOHESU,”

    On the upward review of retirement age from 60 to 65 years, Ngige said the meeting received reports from the office of the Head of Service of the Federation and the Federal Ministry of Health, which both agreed on the realism of the proposal.

    The office of the Head of Service of the Federation has already handled the matter and in turn transmitted same to the National Council on Establishment for further processing at its meeting in December 2021

    Ngige revealed that the meeting agreed that the issues of non-implementation of allowances contained in the 2017 agreement, such as consequential minimum wage adjustment and skipping would be taken holistically.

    Regarding the non adjustment of CONHESS as done in CONMESS, the minister recalled that the matter went to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) for adjudication, following a litigation engendered by a civil society organisation and the court remitted the issue back to JOHESU and its employer, the Federal Ministry of Health for discussion.

    Ngige said that they agreed at the meeting that if the discussions fail, the matter should be brought back for conciliation, adding that the meeting further resolved that other issues brought up by JOHESU, such as the 30 percent of shift duty allowance to nurses and others, payment of outstanding allowance to intern health professionals, payment of teaching allowance to JOHESU members on CONHESS 7 and 8, as well as skipping arrears should be handled expeditiously by FMH.

    According to him, the resolution of issues affecting their members in the state health institutions was for the Council on Health, adding that the Federal Ministry of Health has been directed to receive them and forward to the council.

    He added that JOHESU will meet with the Federal Ministry of Health on Thursday to draw up a framework for all the discussions to start.

    “We will be ready to address all the issues. But we agreed that as a result of the perilous state of the economy, the principle of capacity to pay will guide all our discussion.”

    In his response, Biobelemoye Josiah President of JOHESU, noted that “strike is not the way to go,” and expressed optimism that all issues raised by the unions would be positively attended to.

    The meeting had in attendance, from the Government side the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, Ministers of State, Olurunimbe Mamora (Health) and Festus Keyamo (Labour and Employment), Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Peter Tarfa, and his Health counterpart, Director General, Budget Office, Ben Akabueze and Chairman, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta.

    Also in attendance were representatives of the Account General of the Federation, the Head of Service of the Federation and IPPIS.

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