FG To Reimburse The Split ASUU Side For An Eight-month Wage Backlog.

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ (ASUU) breakaway section, the Congress of University Academics (CONUA), are apparently about to collect an 8-month salary that they earned while lecturers were on strike.

A lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University (Ile Ife) and a member of CONUA, told Daily Trust that Chris Ngige, the minister of labor and employment, has already given the union’s leadership a hint about paying their 8-month wage.

In addition to saying that they will begin getting notifications as of Monday, November 7, it was also stated that the Minister promised to address the issue of their being paid “half salary.”

The official said;

“We were not part of the last strike. We had earlier written to the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. So, the minister has looked into our letter, and he has directed accordingly.”

Spokesman of the Minister, Olajide Oshundun, also confirmed that CONUA members would be paid provided they were not part of the strike that lasted eight months.

Oshundun insisted that those who participated in the strike would not be paid since the policy of No-work-no-pay’ still remains.

He said;

“What I can tell you authoritatively as a spokesperson is that, the policy of ‘No-work-no-pay’ remains. It has not changed because it is a constitutional matter. It is equally recognised by the Charter of ILO, that when people go on strike, they cannot be paid.

“So, if CONUA did not go on strike, they’re entitled to their money. But if they participated in the strike, they too will not be paid. If they were not on strike, legally and conditionally, they are entitled to their pay. I’m looking at it from the point of law.”