As Nigerian workers joined the rest of the world in marking the international Workers’ Day, civil servants in Jigawa State yesterday lamented the delay in the payment of their April salary as a result of the ongoing workers’ verification exercise by the state government.

Stating the position of the workers in a speech, the State Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC) Com. Sanusi Alhassan submitted that not has the current exercise put the workers in the state of uncertainty, but has also jeopardized their hopes of being paid their legitimate entitlement as many legitimate workers have been declared ghost.

According to the NLC chief, while the organised Labour acknowledges the right of every employer to conduct period audits of their workforce to help mitigate cases of employee infractions such as overstay in service, “We also believe that such exercises should not be done in a manner that causes hardships and uncertainties to workers, their immediate families and other dependents.

“We, therefore, call on the State Government to ensure that the migration to the Integrated Personnel Payroll Management System, (IPPMS) platform is conducted in such a way that workers are not affected by any hidden charges, unnecessary bottlenecks in addressing routine complaints, underpayment of salaries and other similar ills associated with the platforms in other areas where it has been implemented. In the case of Jigawa state, the experience so far has been harrowing.”

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