Imo State Govt approves N28,000 minimum wage for Judiciary workers

Imo State Judicial workers are to receive twenty-eight thousand naira (N28,000) minimum wage monthly.

This disclosure was made by the Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Peace and Conflict Resolution, Chief Peter Ohagwa while briefing journalists on the agreement jointly worked out by the State government and the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) .

He said the new salary will take effect from 1st April 2012.
Chief Ohagwa further disclosed that the joint agreement also resolved to maintain the different harmonized salary structure of the Judiciary, different from that of other public servants and to uphold same advantage in future salary review.
It was also resolved that there should be no further industrial action on the issue of the new minimum wage. Similarly, no member of JUSUN shall be victimized on same account.
The State Chairman, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Richard Anyadike, expressed happiness over the peaceful resolution of the long negotiation.
Comrade Anyadike urged judicial workers to relax their minds and do their job with diligence, assuring that the State Gvernment will not dissapoint them.
He recalled that Federal government approved new minimum wage of eighteen thousand naira in 2010 while the Imo State government under Owelle Rochas Okorocha adopted twenty thousand Naira for the lowest paid civil servant in the State in 2011